Tuesday, September 04, 2007

now a message from your healthcare providers

Today, we had a very scary incident involving my appendix and six hours in Urgent Care. In Biology today, I began to feel a pain in my lower stoumach. The two hours I spent in NM History and RSVP, I was almost positive my appendix had burst. I had never felt such intense pain in my life. This is not a wimp's pain, this was the pain of a million tweezers plucking out the individual hairs all over my head, only my head was in my abdomen. In English, I managed to get comfortable enough to survive the pain. But lunch rolled around and the plucking was back. I dressed out for gym, and got all the way to the soccer fields for flag football, all the while reassuring Elissa that I was not having a miscarriage since that was physically impossible, being as how these are virgin lips that speak these words. Mrs Kubala saw the intense pain on my face when I began running and then tearing up, so she sent me to the Nurse's, all of whom were scared for my life, checking blood pressure to make sure I did not have internal bleeding. Since my complaint was on the center and right side of my abdomen, they concurred that it could be my appenix, so my mom came to the home of the matadors and we went to urgent care. After six hours of sleep and talk and taking blood, they were able to tell me that this could be the onslaught of appendicitis, but that I was okay for now. If the pain comes back for more than two hours and is coupled with severse naseaus, I go to the Emergency Room. Get an Ultrasound. Get sliced, and then eat lots of ice cream with chocolate peanut butter malt balls from Trader Joe's. I feel better now that the pain is dulled. Let us pray it remains that way.

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