Emergency Surgery

Tuesday, I woke up to a scary feeling. I had stabbing feelings all over my stomach-well they were so strong it felt like they were all over. It took me all day long to discover they were coming from one centralized area.
I got up to get ready for work. I thought I just needed to eat some breakfast and the pain would go away. I ate a cup of yogurt and a banana and read the Huntsville Times like I do every morning before work. I had a very tough time concentrating on the articles and what was on NewsChannel 19 This Morning. You know I hit the ground running trying to figure out what's going on in the world and this morning my stomach was slowing everything down for me.
So I hit the shower to see if that would give me any relief. I made it through it, but I kept doubling over with pain and I mean sharp pain. When I got out of the shower I called my husband Kevin, who was out of town on business, to tell him about what was going on because the pain was only getting worse.
By this time I had decided since I was crying because the pain was so sharp I had better call work and tell them I wasn't coming in.
Now this is only the second time I've called in sick this year. If you'll refer back to my blog in January you'll see the other time I was sick-it was for a hospital visit.
Moving on with the story-
Then the rest of the day was hell. You know I never call in sick for fear of getting to feeling better the minute after you call in. But this day only got worse.
I finally got in touch with my neighbor and she brought me over some pepto-bismol, pop sickles and ginger ale. That didn't seem to do the trick.
Then at 5:30 I called my mom and told her to not look for me on the 6:00 show that I was sick in the bed. She said what's wrong. I told her everything that had been going on.
Then she asked where was the pain. I actually felt around and realized it was hurting on my lower right side-and it was very sore by that time. She said she, my dad and sister were on their way to get me. They were going to take me to the emergency room.
I said I'll be laying here till you get here.
We got to Huntsville Hospital at 7 p.m. Tuesday night. I went into emergency surgery to have my appendix removed Wednesday morning at 4 a.m. My very sweet husband swooped in from out of town to be by my side an hour and 45 minutes before I went into surgery. Everything was very last minute. I'm just glad I had my husband, my parents and my sissy all there with me when I woke up.
Huntsville Hospital's nurses, doctors and staff took good care of me and I'm doing good. I'm just glad that my mom insisted we go to the hospital. Because I was just going to lay in the bed with my "stomach virus."
I am extremely sore though. I have three new little holes in my belly. One in my belly-button and one below it and beside it.
I am going to post the pictures of my appendix just as soon as I get them scanned. So get ready for that. You're going to love it! For now though I'll be resting up in the bed.