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subtlegreyIt's the gift he didn't know he wanted.
After months of not feeling well, our Dr *finally* ordered an abdominal CT for Orrin. Friday morning, he went in for the procedure. Before the full CT had even been read, they sent him to the ER. The ER just had him skip ER admission entirely and go straight to hospital admission for emergency surgery. By Friday evening, his appendix was successfully (albeit laboriously) excavated.
Friday night was miserable for him. IV, catheter, drain tube coming out of his belly... he was a wreck. Saturday mid-afternoon we weren't sure he was gonna get to come home. Happily, all the criteria were met and he let me take him home.
We're still piecing together all the details (no puns intended). What we know thus far is his appendix was rotted and stuck to various guts. 2 pieces of his colon were glued together as a result and had to be freed & patched up some. There was a lot of internal bleeding, surgery took about 3x as long as originally anticipated.
Per the surgeon, this was why he has been so sick since September. 6-to-8 weeks worth of rotting appendix is not a casual medical condition to be living with. I think it's a testament to how well he was taking care of himself throughout the process that he wasn't worse off.
So that was our weekend. I have not yet had a nervous breakdown. SUCCESS!
After months of not feeling well, our Dr *finally* ordered an abdominal CT for Orrin. Friday morning, he went in for the procedure. Before the full CT had even been read, they sent him to the ER. The ER just had him skip ER admission entirely and go straight to hospital admission for emergency surgery. By Friday evening, his appendix was successfully (albeit laboriously) excavated.
Friday night was miserable for him. IV, catheter, drain tube coming out of his belly... he was a wreck. Saturday mid-afternoon we weren't sure he was gonna get to come home. Happily, all the criteria were met and he let me take him home.
We're still piecing together all the details (no puns intended). What we know thus far is his appendix was rotted and stuck to various guts. 2 pieces of his colon were glued together as a result and had to be freed & patched up some. There was a lot of internal bleeding, surgery took about 3x as long as originally anticipated.
Per the surgeon, this was why he has been so sick since September. 6-to-8 weeks worth of rotting appendix is not a casual medical condition to be living with. I think it's a testament to how well he was taking care of himself throughout the process that he wasn't worse off.
So that was our weekend. I have not yet had a nervous breakdown. SUCCESS!
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Date: 30 Oct 2017 00:20 (UTC)Good that it all went well.
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Date: 30 Oct 2017 02:52 (UTC)no subject
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Date: 30 Oct 2017 09:50 (UTC)At least he's a horror/monster author. If that's not fodder for SOMETHING storywise, what possibly is?
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Date: 31 Oct 2017 17:56 (UTC)