Emergency Surgery

well i am 5 days now post emergency surgery last saturday. i was just released home yesterday and have been slowly recovering. so here is what happened:
last thurs night at work i developed some abdominal pain. i thought it was nothing but a little bit of abdominal colic and that it would wear off soon. it however continued throughout the night. even while asleep i was still aware of the pain. when i woke up it was still there. i thought, ok, all i need is some buscopan. so i ate, (this may be a bit nasty) but i opened my bowels and still had the pain. i made my way to work, which was quite difficult, not feeling right at all. when i got to the train station in Auburn, i decided to take a taxi cause i really would have been late if i had walked as walking was getting difficult for me. on my way in the taxi, i realised that every bump that i was going over, was causing me alot of pain. i thought to myself, that is not good, signs of peritonism. all night i had been ticking off in my head things it could not be. like, ok its not a small bowel obstruction cause of this and this and this.... neways i got to hospital, took a buscopan and it was not helping. i started to also develop a headache. so i decided to call in sick. i told my boss and she said to me well u really have 2 choices- get triaged here and get someone to examine you, orgo home, wait a bit and go to your GP. i decided to go home cause Auburn was just a bit too far from home for me and i knew i would have to be kept in if anything, and also i work with these people everyday, i didn't want to do that. so i went home..... well kinda

on my way home, the trip was just getting more difficult and the signs of peritonism more painful, so as i got off the bus, i decided to just go straight to the GP and not bother to go home. cause you know if i went home, it would have been harder for me to leave and who knows what would have happened. so i went to the GP, could hardly stand straight, still the pain was bearable. the GP saw me and agreed with me that something was going on and that he was not happy to sit on me and just to some blood test. he faxed a letter to RPA emergency room and i called my friend Kem to take me to the ED, since she was just across the road. we got there, got signed in, and they were like, just like a typical doctor to come in late, or oh a doctor, bad prognostic factor. neways they were very nice and pretty efficient. we all thought after examination that it was appendicitis. they took some blood, put a drip in and gave me morphine... that is a whole nother story, seriously. the surgeons saw me, they agreed, said that i would get the best treatment cause they have to get the doctors back to work quickly and i was admitted.

Surgery would have happened that night but there were 5 other emergency cases ahead of me and i was pretty stable. and the poor surgeon was operating all night. when he came to see me in the morning, he did look tired. neways someone else was on at that time and i was taken to theatre that afternoon. all this while the network of friends and church folk were at work and sat morning i had so many people coming to see me and pray with me, it was great. and yes my parents knew as well, so the majority of people that could be contacted were contacted. the church fam was great and i do remember a time when i wondered who would i call if something happened. who would come and see me, who would care and this really showed me that i do have a strong network here.

i'll have to continue this tomorrow, cause really i am tired now. i get tired in a snap now. after a shower even, it is pitiful. so stories of the post op and what the diagnosis was.... was it appendicitis like we all thought? was it something else? was it a combination?.... you'll just have to wait till later.

recovery is going ok, slow but ok...:) later