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So, on the previous Thursday, I got what I thought was some bad heartburn. Very long story short, by Sunday at 7am I was in the emergency room with a ruptured appendix.
I don't have a whole lot of energy right now, but I wanted y'all to know I'm doing ok, came home from the hospital last night. I'll be recuperating for a least a week and will probably have a nice not so little scar on my belly.
Hope everyone is doing well. And I'll have stories to tell when I'm back.
*gentle hugs to all*
*BIG HUGGYS* for Bran.
Get well soon kiddo [img]smile.gif[/img]
Well, dang. Glad you're OK! Get some rest.
I'm happy your ok, Bran: have some rest and next time you don't now what to do come here and post instead of 'inventing'... what was that? Appendix? Damn, you're creative. I would have played cards, you said 'Let's have a trip through that hospital, I've never been there..' [img]wink.gif[/img] [img]tongue.gif[/img]
Ehy, just joking of course. You rock. Well, usually. Maybe not now. But, for me, you always rock. [img]biggrin.gif[/img]
Gah, that was a nasty surprise.
Take it easy and get well. [img]smile.gif[/img]
*hugs* Get well, sis.
Wow.
And to think it wasn't even Christmas...glad you're okay!
I'm glad you're okay, Bran. Get some rest.
A psychotic tattoo parlor. I like that, Cats. I've got a nasty scar myself, all the way down my spine.
Damn, Bran. I'm glad that you're ok. Call your girlfriend over for some TLC. Play some video games. Don't strain yourself posting too much. [img]wink.gif[/img]
Wow, Bran, that sounds painful! I hope you recover quickly. At first I thought you were going to say you had some form of heart attack, which is equally scary. I hope this is totally recoverable though.
Get well soon, and eat lots of ice cream! [img]smile.gif[/img]
Those hospital-things do have some use after all!
I went to one in February (ruptured artery) and I have a scar too! It seems to be a habit of hospitals to leave people with permanent marks, like a psychotic tattoo parlour...
Get well soon!
Thanks for all the good thoughts, everyone. I'm feeling pretty good. The only real pain is that if I walk or stand for any length of time (say, more than 2 minutes) my side hurts. It will be awhile before those muscles put themselves back together, I guess.
Got the staples (ten of them) removed yesterday. Plan on going back to work (very light duty only-I'm not allowed to lift anything) next Monday. By then walking and standing shouldn't hurt so much.
GF has been great. She stayed for 12 hours everyday at the hospital. She lives with me and pushed back the start of her summer job so she could take care of me this week. I know this was stressful for her and I'm so grateful to have her.
My mom flew in and was here for several days last week. What a Mother's Day for her, yeesh. Lots of flowers and well-wishes from friends and family. I feel very lucky. Work has also been very understanding.
Anyway, glad to see the board is doing well. I feel lost, so I know it's been busy. [img]wink.gif[/img]
Yeay, Bran is better!
I had staples about a year and a half ago. Must say I prefer stitches myself, especially the getting them removed part.
You are very lucky Bran. [img]smile.gif[/img]
Can Bran or anyone tell me how you make links on the boards without typing in the actual links? The only way I know how to do it is to paste in the url, but I see Bran has a whole bunch of links in her signature that are just the titles, not the URLs.
Testing link:
Terry's Forum
Ok, nevermind, I finally figured it out. [img]redface.gif[/img]
<font color="#a62a2a" size="1">[ May 14, 2003 07:18 AM: Message edited by: Gem F ]</font>
Glad to hear you're ok Bran!
When my cousin had her's removed, she got tired of people looking at her funny when she walked so she had a t-shirt made up that said, "You'd walk like this too if you had your appendix removed".
Dang, I'm late to the get well party!
*gentle hugs*
I'm very glad you are ok Bran.
*more hugs*
*gentle hugs*
Well, now you can impress people in bars. Tell them it's from a knife fight. That's what I do with my scar (across the back of my head).
Thanks again, everyone. And glad you figured out how do add a title to your link, Gem.
I didn't find the staples painful to remove at all. He just popped them out.
I've never had stitches (except for the dissolving kind when my wisdom teeth were removed), so I can't compare.
Of course, I just tell myself none of this pain compares to before the appendix was removed. [img]biggrin.gif[/img]
*hugs Bran* Sorry I'm so late, you can blame it on me cause I was gone, you wouldn't have gotten sick if I was here. *grins*
Yikes. Um...perhaps it's safest if I just pat you on the head?
Glad you're okay and that you were already in the hospital when the worst happened.
[img]graemlins/rose.gif[/img] [img]graemlins/rose.gif[/img] [img]graemlins/rose.gif[/img] (get well flowers)
Whoa You are having a bad month, you haven't complained much about the hospital service so must've been alright (had a Paediatrician from New York talk to us today and she had some horror stories about some of the big public laboratories over there, just when we thought you'd all be so controlled and efficient)
hope you are feeling much better now. [img]graemlins/rose.gif[/img] [img]graemlins/present.gif[/img]
You've been fairly quiet since this happened. I hope you're better now?
I'm doing good, just busy with everything (car insurance, signing lease on apartment for another year, yada, yada).
Have a doctor's appointment tomorrow. Hopefully he'll start letting me pick up things. I have to start working out again. I lost a lot of muscle in the hospital (though the scale only says 5 pounds).
Still fighting over wrecked car. Tomorrow I tell that adjuster to put it all on my uninsured motorist plan and get my damn car fixed. Car pooling has it's advantages, but I have to get up really early to do it. I want my routines back. *end grumpy moment*
I'll get back to the board when I can.
*HUGs to all, especially Asis*
I hope your car thing went all right. My brother is trying to work out a deal with ICBC but he totaled his truck and they'll only give him $100 - but he has a $200 deductable.
That sucks. I hope your brother can work out something.
I'll have a $250 deductible when my car finally gets fixed (been 3 weeks and repairs are finally started). I got a rental car the other day so no more concerns with transportation. And it's a brand new (less than 3000 miles) Mazda 6. Fun little car. [img]biggrin.gif[/img]
On the hospital side, I have one week to go and then I'm allowed to go back to full activities (lifting, exercising). So far June is a better month than May. [img]biggrin.gif[/img]