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[arguchik]

well...i have officially had my first surgery. they took out my appendix friday night, at the UW medical center.

and no, in case you're wondering, they didn't do the laproscopic procedure. i had an "open appendectomy." the surgical chief resident told me it's cheaper, faster, and only minimally more scarring; also that it's what *he* would have, if he needed an appendectomy. so i agreed. just get it done...ya know? i don't wanna die.

there's nothing like having your abdomen sliced open to let you know that you're alive.

and i still don't like narcotics. narcotics + sharon = bad bad bad like puking your guts out, running into walls bad. i'll take plain tylenol, thanx.

so what would you do with 150 oxycodone tablets, if you were me? hehehe.

wanna see my scar? ;-)

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[arguchik.livejournal.com]

pain levels are good, thanx. tylenol is doing great, and i'm forcing myself to take it easy. (not as easy as glaucon would like, though, i think...he keeps getting mad at me for overdoing the activity, and then he says, "you're definitely not a cry baby." i'm not sure if that last is a good thing or a bad thing... i guess i have a pretty high pain threshold, anyway, for whatever it's worth.)

my nurse practitioner called today and said *she* thinks they did an open "appy" (as you and they called it) because they were worried about it rupturing. she said my white count was pretty high, and had gone up significantly from when they did the labs at her office, to when they did them again at the hospital a few hours later. plus the CT scan looked pretty bad. (i wouldn't know...i kept asking the docs to show it to me, and nobody ever did.) hmm. guess i was pretty sick. it's still very strange and a little worrisome to me that i didn't *feel* sicker. i definitely did thursday night, but i felt better on friday. the NP said i'd have felt a lot sicker soon, and also would have been in excruciating pain, if i hadn't gotten it taken care of quickly.

[costco77.livejournal.com]

hmm - sorry to hear about the appendix. Better sometimes to do it open, if its in danger of rupturing. That way, you can grab it a bit more gingerly. Ruptured stool in sterile abdominal cavity no good! Appendicitis actually classically doesn't make you feel totally crappy (unless it ruptures! Then you know in a hury!)

Those doctors, always hiding things from patients...

Glad to hear you're healing up. Any surgery is no fun, and the sore throat from getting a tube shoved down your throat is no fun either.
This too shall pass...

[arguchik.livejournal.com]

why do those doctors do that? hide things, i mean. do "they" (ahem, present company excepted) think "we" can't handle the truth?

i assure you, i can. the whole thing still makes me laugh... and i wasn't ever very scared. that was probably the endorphins, eh?