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[Doug SC]

Great news!

 I'm in Fl with family at an ICU with my Dad. He is in bad shape but we can communicate with a white board. He is fighting and hasn't given up. We are there to show support.

[Captain Kidd]

Great news!

 I'm in Fl with family at an ICU with my Dad. He is in bad shape but we can communicate with a white board. He is fighting and hasn't given up. We are there to show support.

Prayers

[Riley Smith]

Yay! Now, take it easy!!! I'll never forget standing up for that first time with no assistance. Oh man!

[Jim B., CD-25]

White cell count came down. I'm home!

"There's no place like home."  That is good news - now you can really get some rest and get going with the recuperation process. 

[Wolverine]

Great news! Now, don't be like me, get some rest.

When I was 31 at work one day I felt a "pop" in my lower right abdomen that doubled me over. I ignored it and continued working. Later that night while lying restless in bed my wife reached over and pressed on the area. That hurt. She announced it was my appendix, go to the hospital. So about 12:30am I rode my motorcycle to the very small hospital 10 miles north. I mentioned to the ER doctor what my wife said. She began ranting about self diagnosing and made a comment about murder-cycles. My response was swift and nasty. She had me undress, lie on the table, and performed a prostate exam on me. This is when I questioned her competence and where she placed in her class at med school. She told me to get out or she would have security toss me out. I returned home and couldn't sleep. Once again my wife insisted I return. This time I started out for a hospital 30 miles away, but after only a few miles into the trip I started feeling quite sick. I returned to the 1st ER where the doctor refused to examine me saying it was something I had ate. Finally a nurse came in and made an argument to admit me. When the next shift arrived I was told I was going in for an appendectomy. Because of the incompetence of the 1st "doctor" I spent 2 weeks in the hospital being pumped with antibiotics before returning home to taking care of my wheelchair bound wife and 3 young daughters. I refused offers of help from family as they lived hours away. 4 days later I awoke to my entire right leg and foot swollen, purple and black. I had internal bleeding and spent another 3 days in the hospital.

I didn't listen to the surgeon's instructions to take it easy and ended up missing 6 weeks of work and hiring a housekeeper. If you have someone who can take of you, let them. 

[Captain Kidd]

Wolverine, now that's a horror story. Glad you're here to tell the story. We've been praying for the daughter of one of our members whose appendix burst. She came very close to not making it. And this is the 21st century!

I had mine out as a little boy. It seems when it happened, that day I decided to put dirt in my dad's gas tank. They wound up calling a cab to get me to the hospital. The story is that my appendix burst when they laid it on the table. Close call!

[Wolverine]

Doctor told me it was the messiest appendectomy he ever performed. I don't scar easily, which is good because I wore off the right side of my face in a bicycle accident at 15. Today I can barely find the incision.

My wife had hers out at 16, and her gall bladder in her late 50s. Those incision sites are still raised, purplish, and painful.