My Trip to the Hospital
Well, I'm sure i've already told most of you this. But I just felt like writing it somewhere, so here is a description of my trip to the hospital.
I started to have pains in my lower abdomen at about 5/6 o'clock on Saturday night, they wern't to bad but they did make it hard to study, and were distracting during the STAG production of "Anything Goes". I decided to ignore them and hope they went away over night.
I woke up on Sunday morning and it was fine, on a pain scale of 1 to 10, maybe about a 2 or 3. As I tried to study throughout the day the pain slowly increased. I went to the movies with Meg at 2:15 to see X-Men 3. Wasn't a bad film, probably better than the first, worse than the second. The pain wasn't too bad during that, i didn't really notice it. But after I got home and started to try and do more physis study it really started to hurt. I started limping, when moving my Physics study from one spot to another I only moved one booklet or piece of paper at a time. I put up with this for about an hour and a half, and told my parents just after dinner (as I felt it was getting serious).
Dad got out the 'Symptoms' Medial Guide, and diagnosed that I probably had appendicitis, and then he took me up to the medial clinic at the private hospital. Waiting for dad to look up the symptoms book and decide what we were going to do was probably the most painful time of the weekend, I sat in the chair, every 5 or 10 seconds this jolt of pain would go through me, I was starting to shake and feel sick.
When we arrived at the medical clinic they informed us that they couldn't fit us in until 9:15, so we booked an appointment and drove home. I then went online and talked to people for about an hour before returning to the clinic. After waiting there until about 9:35 before actually getting in, we saw the doctor. We went into his office and I lay down on his bed, he pressed around a bit, and it didn't take him long to find where the painful spot was. Given all the other symptoms he concluded that I was likely to have appendicitis, although it wasn't 'acute' yet. He sent me to the hospital and said I would probably have stay there overnight, and be operated on the next day. He then went to print off his report, and his printer was jammed, waited about 5 minutes in pain before he decided to handwrite it, then we left and went straight to the hospital.
When we got to the hospital they took our name, and we sat in the waiting room for about another hour, the pain was starting to ease of a little bit now. When I finally got in; this new doctor got me to lie down on the bed and he also felt around, while lying down it didn't hurt at all, although whenever preassure was applied it did. He took a Urine test and Blood test. While waiting to get the results back I read the posters in the room. 1 was about how to apply some liquid bandaid stuff, another was about how your child should progress over the first 6 years of his life. We got the results back and were informed that it currently looked ok, I could have appendicitis, but it wasn't yet acute. I was allowed to go home, although if it got worse I was to go straight back. He said I could probably go to school, but he wouldn't recommened it. And then I went home.
Woke up the next day, maybe a little tender around there, but not sore at all; so I decided to go to school. I lasted til photography before I started to feel sick again. No pain this time, but just this general queasy, nautious feeling. I felt like throwing up, but I didn't think I would (although at one point during lunch I did). Anyway I managed to track down dad, and he took me home. After getting home and having something to eat I started feeling good again, but then at about 3 i started to feel queasy again. Its just been fluctuating between good and bad, at one point I had a headache, not too bad.
Well that is my recent medial dilemas, I'm not tired, my nose and throat are fine. I'm happy, but obviously something is wrong with me. I just hope it goes away before the exams next week.
Jono
I started to have pains in my lower abdomen at about 5/6 o'clock on Saturday night, they wern't to bad but they did make it hard to study, and were distracting during the STAG production of "Anything Goes". I decided to ignore them and hope they went away over night.
I woke up on Sunday morning and it was fine, on a pain scale of 1 to 10, maybe about a 2 or 3. As I tried to study throughout the day the pain slowly increased. I went to the movies with Meg at 2:15 to see X-Men 3. Wasn't a bad film, probably better than the first, worse than the second. The pain wasn't too bad during that, i didn't really notice it. But after I got home and started to try and do more physis study it really started to hurt. I started limping, when moving my Physics study from one spot to another I only moved one booklet or piece of paper at a time. I put up with this for about an hour and a half, and told my parents just after dinner (as I felt it was getting serious).
Dad got out the 'Symptoms' Medial Guide, and diagnosed that I probably had appendicitis, and then he took me up to the medial clinic at the private hospital. Waiting for dad to look up the symptoms book and decide what we were going to do was probably the most painful time of the weekend, I sat in the chair, every 5 or 10 seconds this jolt of pain would go through me, I was starting to shake and feel sick.
When we arrived at the medical clinic they informed us that they couldn't fit us in until 9:15, so we booked an appointment and drove home. I then went online and talked to people for about an hour before returning to the clinic. After waiting there until about 9:35 before actually getting in, we saw the doctor. We went into his office and I lay down on his bed, he pressed around a bit, and it didn't take him long to find where the painful spot was. Given all the other symptoms he concluded that I was likely to have appendicitis, although it wasn't 'acute' yet. He sent me to the hospital and said I would probably have stay there overnight, and be operated on the next day. He then went to print off his report, and his printer was jammed, waited about 5 minutes in pain before he decided to handwrite it, then we left and went straight to the hospital.
When we got to the hospital they took our name, and we sat in the waiting room for about another hour, the pain was starting to ease of a little bit now. When I finally got in; this new doctor got me to lie down on the bed and he also felt around, while lying down it didn't hurt at all, although whenever preassure was applied it did. He took a Urine test and Blood test. While waiting to get the results back I read the posters in the room. 1 was about how to apply some liquid bandaid stuff, another was about how your child should progress over the first 6 years of his life. We got the results back and were informed that it currently looked ok, I could have appendicitis, but it wasn't yet acute. I was allowed to go home, although if it got worse I was to go straight back. He said I could probably go to school, but he wouldn't recommened it. And then I went home.
Woke up the next day, maybe a little tender around there, but not sore at all; so I decided to go to school. I lasted til photography before I started to feel sick again. No pain this time, but just this general queasy, nautious feeling. I felt like throwing up, but I didn't think I would (although at one point during lunch I did). Anyway I managed to track down dad, and he took me home. After getting home and having something to eat I started feeling good again, but then at about 3 i started to feel queasy again. Its just been fluctuating between good and bad, at one point I had a headache, not too bad.
Well that is my recent medial dilemas, I'm not tired, my nose and throat are fine. I'm happy, but obviously something is wrong with me. I just hope it goes away before the exams next week.
Jono