Originally Posted by The Great Owl
I'm good for the bundle as soon as I get home from the hospital, because I want all of the March titles.
During the past couple of weeks, I had been experiencing occasional chills, low energy, lower ab pain, and lower back pain, but I shrugged off these symptoms as everyday small stuff and kept on trucking. The pain got so bad on Sunday, however, that I finally checked myself into a nearby ER, expecting that the family curse of kidney stones had found me at last.
A CT scan revealed, instead, that I had an appendix inflammation and a high white blood cell count. Three hours later, the surgery revealed that my appendix had actually burst and that I was deathly infected. I've spent the past three days in the ninth circle of hell, with bloating due to total malfunction of the bowel system, a tube going down my nose to drain fluid out of my stomach, IV drips, shots to the stomach, etc.
I'm over the hump now, but it sucks. I have not had surgery since 1981, when I was in fourth grade, so this whole feeling of being in mortal danger and helpless to perform minor tasks, is new to me.
I'll be home soon, though, and I'll order the March TT titles.
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