Corona_S2K

Last Wednesday I was feeling poorly at work and came home. Later in the afternoon I was much worse and asked my daughter to take me to the ER. They performed an emergency appendectomy Wednesday evening. The doc told me no problem lapriscopic type surgery, small incision, one day in the hospital. Paula has been telling me I am weird for years and now she has proof. My appendics weren't where they should have been Which resulted in two large incisions and a stay in ICU. I now look like I had a cesarian section and open heart surgery

Anyway I'm home feeling much better but moving very slow

Grannyrod

Bummer, Mr. C. Glad you getting back on your feet and that it wasn't worse. Sometimes these ageing bodies play tricks on us. Ask me how I know.

matrix

Glad your feeling better!

This is the first time I have heard of an organ not being where it is supposed to be? Where was it?

Lainey

Ouch!

My sister had the same issue of "it's not where it's supposed to be." Don't think of yourself as weird, but "special."

Hope you feel better soon.

Corona_S2K

The Doc asked "Where does it hurt?" and it hurt just below my rib cage. She kept asking are you sure it doesn't hurt down here (lower on my abdomen). Apparently, and I only know what the Doc told me, as a fetus develops the intestines develop on the left side and move across to the right to fill the abdominal cavity. When mine moved across they got around the appendics and forced it up higher in the cavity than where it normally sits. So they had to find it, then extricate it from my intestines, then remove it. She even had a name for the condition and said it is rare but (obviously) does occur. The good news is everything developed normally it just got twisted up.

Lainey, one of my daughters favorite sayings is "I'm not weird I'm gifted!"

rjosey8385

Glad to have you back, Corona....sorry your absence wasn't for something fun, like a drive down the PCH for a few days with the top down!

matrix

You would think an xray or something like that would show that the "item" is MIA ....

Chazmo

Our best wishes for speedy recovery, Corona!

MsPerky

Wow, Dave...quite a story. Glad you are finally OK. Maybe you'll end up in the medical history books.

Corona_S2K

Funny you should say this because that was exactly my thought. They did a CT scan prior to the surgery. I would have thought that would have shown exactly what was going on. I suspect that they knew going in and just didn't say. Which was fine with me, I was nervous enough.