Been in the hospital for a month - Page 2

On January 05 2012 02:39 Nizzy wrote:


Thanks for all the detail man. Yeah I would be scared that I was going to die. I was on a good 18-month stretch of not really taking care of myself as much as I should. Mainly because I was so busy with school/work and didn't have time to eat and sleep right. Plus computer gaming ^_^. I think puking is a key sign of something is wrong as well.

Hope you have a full recovery.

On January 05 2012 01:50 Allied wrote:
So excited i'm finally getting out today maybe. Its been terrible i haven't touched sc2 in so long but that won't slow me down. Its time to hit Grandmaster when i'm back. Was at Masters but i couldn't play due to my illness it was too much pain.

So excited to finally play again! going to be training hardcore after this weekend.



Edit - What happened was i had appendicitis around in November. It bursted and i was in the hospital for about a week while they cleaned it up. Apparently some of the bacteria was left and came together and formed a siist (idk how to spell it) and it went and attacked / Attached itself to my liver. So i've been down and out for a month but i'm going to be back

Edit 2 - Everyone please make sure you are covered by insurance. 33,000 hospital bills aren't fun.

On January 05 2012 05:29 Allied wrote:
Wish i lived in Europe or Canada right now though.

So i was in pain a whole other night (TERRIBLE, TERRIBLE pain omg) as they operated apparently it has been "Leaking" Which basically means it fucking burst and if you didn't know the appendicitis holds like all this goop thats really bad for you if it leaks. So i was in the hospital for a week while they tried to drain it out.

Long story short, the chief surgeon meets me the next morning (6 am, fucking freaks) and tells me basically "ah, you're the guy with the appendix. Nice to meet you, I've only seen your stomach yet"

On January 05 2012 03:55 hns wrote:


It's funny that you see it this way. I had appendicits in summer 2010 and it nearly got really bad because I was so fed up with work. I had pains in my lower stomach when moving in a certain way, plus a really "creeping upwards" pain while pissing, so I decided to go see my doctor. The doctor pushed around a bit on my stomach and took some blood to test it (to check for white blood cells); however, he couldn't tell if it was appendicits or some urinal infection (which I thought because of the pain while taking a leak), and my white blood cell concentration was a bit higher than usual but still normal. This was on monday. I had a really important seminar and a talk to give on friday, so I basically slept only 4 hours per night and worked my ass off, and obviously forgot about the pain. On friday I gave my talk, fell into bed completely exhausted afterwards, wake up in the evening - pain is back. Over the weekend it became really bad, but I still had an exam on tuesday.. so I show up at the university on monday (I had to be there for my office hours also), but I'm really in pain, had to open the button on my jeans and stuff.. I decide it's too much, go to the doctor again. He touches my stomach, I tell you.. I nearly blacked out. I was about to fall from the couch there, seriously, worst pain ever. Doctor looks at me pretty worried and tells me to fucking get to the hospital. I grab my stuff, to the hospital, doctor there comes, tries to touch my stomach - I nearly hit him. He decides I'm really in pain and gets some blood off me and sends me to a patient room, they were going to keep me in over night for surveillance anyway. That's about 5pm. 5.30pm some nurse and the doctor arrive and tell me I'm going to get cut open at 6pm and better get ready. Operation goes about 2 and a half hours, next thing I know is me waking up in the wake up room (huh .. :>) with some bloody bag attached to my stomach.
Long story short, the chief surgeon meets me the next morning (6 am, fucking freaks) and tells me basically "ah, you're the guy with the appendix. Nice to meet you, I've only seen your stomach yet" and that I was really close to having a real big problem. Turns out my appendix was already about to burst through my stomach wall. He asked me if I hadn't had REAL fucking pain already for quite some time... I probably had, but I didn't notice :/ They were able to operate me endoscopically (keyhole technique), but barely, and mostly only because my appendix was already so fucked up that they managed to pull it out in small pieces through the small holes. That reads "necrotiating appendix" (or something like that..) in the paper they give you when they let you go home, by the way. Due to the keyhole technique, I was able to leave the hospital after 5 days (saturday). Doctor said he never met a guy with such a destroyed appendix who was able to leave in such short time. Seems like I was really lucky.

So, listen to your body man.

Sorry for strange constructions/wording, I'm obviously not a native speaker.