I tell ya, I find a great job, things are going great - I'm in my dream job and then the **** hits the fan. A week ago last Friday I was working a job in Meriodian and started having cramps in my gut but everything was fine by the time I got home and me and the wife went to dinner. On Saturday I woke up to severe stomach cramps and fever but by the evening the cramps had subsided although I still had fever. Beth went to sleep in the guest bedroom because she and Rachel were going to the waterpark on Sunday. Right about 0430 I woke up with cramps so bad I couldn't walk and could barely breathe or talk. Made my way to the guest bedroom to wake up Beth and by then the pain was so bad I told her to call 911 because there was no way I could get dressed enough to go in the car. Brandon FD and an ambulance showed up, they figured I had appendicitis so off we went to University Hospital. They ran some tests and diagnosed me with appendicitis and scheduled emergency surgery.

I woke up Monday morning in a hospital room feeling like total crap and still in pain. Monday, Tuedsday, and Wednesday I couldn't eat anything, my gut was distended and very painful, and started wondering if they got everything like they thought they did. Wednesday afternoon the senior surgeon on my case and his entourage walked into my room and announced they had ordered an second CT Scan because when they opened my removed appendix they found a tumor had been growing in it (a benign tumor, at least...whew!) He had a sneaking suspicion that the laproscopic procedure done Sunday missed the possible existence of something else like maybe a second appendix. So, Wednesday night I went back in for surgery and woke up Thursday morning in ICU.

By 1700 Thursday I was brought to another room and the news was given to me. Not only did I have a second appendix but it had ruptured when the first one ruptured, so there was infection running through me all day Monday and Tuesday and if they had never ordered the second CT, God only knows what could have happpened.

So now it's Friday, I feel fantastic, and I can look to go home like Saturday or Sunday. Recovery time will be about 4-5 weeks - already discussed it with my boss, my job will be there when I am ready to go back, he has absolutely no desire to replace me. I just hope this is the last of the dramatics for me in this new job!

 

Do you have 11 toes too?

Glad you're feeling better.

 

Glad you are better. That was a heck of a week. Wow, 2 appendicitis, would be better to have 2 ,,,, never mind.

 

Quite the week for sure! Glad they got you cleaned out proper. Never heard of having 2 appendixes.

Good luck on your recovery!

 

wow crazy story man i hope you have a speedy recovery!!!!

 

Ah, the ole double appendix delete mod! Glad you are back to your normal 35% welcome back!

 

Wow, I didn't even know it was possible to have two. You must be some kinda freak!

When your story started, I figured it was going to be diverticula.

Really happy to know that the doctor knew more about humanoid anatomy than I do. Best wishes, and a speedy recovery.

 

(Hopefully the first procedure was not something else!)
Do you still have the rest of your organs?

 

Glad to hear you're feeling better...it's a good thing you were in the hospital where they could monitor you closely!!!

 

Glad things went good for you. I came out of mine with a poop bag attached to my belly. Had it for 3 months. Not fun at all. Get will and don't over do it.

 

I finding that it is believed that maybe 1 in 100,000 people have a second appendix.
I can't find any case of a third one so you will have to use a different excuse next time.
You get well soon.

 

now that is just bad there -

 

Yeah, the doc told me the incidence of double appendix is 1 in 100,000 - can't ever do anything simple, everything's gotta be a big production!

 

Hope you have a speedy recovery...I learned to never worry about a job, If you're good/great at what you do, your job will always be there when you are able to return. Obviously you are good/great at what you do!!!!

 

Wow. Heck of a week for you. Glad to hear you're making a good recovery. And i learned something new; in my 35 short years of existence i had never heard of anyone having two appendixes. That just boggles my mind.

I took a buddy fishing with me a few years back. He felt ok on the way to the lake. But once on the water he described all the symptoms you did. We didn't think it was anything serious at the time. Well we got home and that night he was in the hospital getting his burst appendix removed. Whew. Poor guy. Some of us at work chipped in and got him a shirt that says "I went fishing with Ron, and all I got was this lousy t-shirt, and my appendix removed." Ah, good times......good times.....

Get well soon!