Appendicitis?

(Appendix)
(The white circle is where it ruptured.)

Connor woke up at around midnight on Wednesday complaining of stomach pain. James didn't think it was appendicitis.

The story came out that while he was at the park, a boy had found a box of idaho spuds in the garbage can. They decided that they would be OK to eat. So Connor ate one. So I thought that he had food poisoning.

We offered a blessing and the pain went away and we went to bed.

By the next morning he had started vomiting. So we had him stay home and try to keep hydrated. He started acting a little better by evening. At least he could keep some liquid down.

Friday morning the pain was a little more intense. He couldn't keep anything down. He hadn't really gone to the bathroom for about a day. With James being gone and the weekend coming, I didn't want to get stuck with something bad. HAHA I got an appointment at the Micron clinic to check things out. Once they established a timeline and checked him over (10 minutes), I was on our way to the hospital with appendicitis.

Once in the ER, we found out an allergic reaction to pain meds, so they went straight for morphine. The on-call surgeon didn't want to operated on him because he was a minor. The pediatric doctor on call was on her second appendectomy. So we were going to have to wait our turn.

Finally at 7pm, he was being rolled into the O.R. and dying for food. They do the operation laparoscopically. In through the belly button and then two smaller cut in the groin. The surgeon came and then told us that it had ruptured and would need two more days in the hospital for antibiotics. Going through the timeline again, we determined that it had probably ruptured Thursday night because he was feeling slightly better. He didn't have a tempurature until we got to the hospital when the infection started to set in.

So we spent the next two days in the hospital, Connor still dying for REAL food. James missed it all. He have several visitors and was able to learn more about the medical field.