Marguerite
Active Member
At last! easy child 2/difficult child 2 is getting her appendix out on Wednesday morning. We saw the surgeon this afternoon. He was the first doctor completely comfortable with the likelihood that she has a grumbling appendix and it can't stay there. He commented that the ultrasound report seemed too cautious. because I had been there too, I told him how the radiologist had said, "She's not in enough pain for this to be appendicitis; she's not jumping off the table or screaming." The radiologist hadn't seemed to believe that appendicitis could be anything but acute.
I remember how my grumbling appendix felt; looking at her, I think easy child 2/difficult child 2 is feeling worse. I was apprehensive about my surgery; a bit ambivalent, I think. She, on the other hand, would have held the scalpel for the doctor if he had suggested doing it in his rooms, right then and there.
She had the choice of Wednesday in a city hospital, a long and difficult drive from home, or in ten days' time at the local private hospital (very luxurious). She made it clear that she wants it out, NOW. Doesn't care about scars (there shouldn't be much, if any - he's going in through her navel, with only two other very tiny incisions below the bikini line). She just wants to begin to feel well again.
Looking at the ultrasound pics again, I'm more sure than ever that there's a foreign body in the appendix. The radiologist said it was probably a bubble, since she wasn't reacting as if in pain (yes, she was!) so according to him it probably wasn't a faecolith (a common finding in a grumbling appendix, and also an acute one I believe). I'm curious as to what pathology will find. I don't think it's a bubble. It was a bright white dot in the centre of the appendix on the scan, and it was there in several images so it wasn't an artefact. My bet - faecolith.
Wednesday is going to be busy - difficult child 3 is booked for a science excursion to Darling Harbour's new "Australian Wildlife Park". I wanted to go too, but now I'll have to get difficult child 1 to take his little brother. I'll call the school tomorrow to square it with them. Tomorrow is going to be my usual busy Tuesday, and somehow I've got to organise how we're going to manage the various trips to the city on Wednesday, and when. I'm not looking forward to Wednesday's running around, but I will be very glad when it's all over and we can bring easy child 2/difficult child 2 home.
Marg
I remember how my grumbling appendix felt; looking at her, I think easy child 2/difficult child 2 is feeling worse. I was apprehensive about my surgery; a bit ambivalent, I think. She, on the other hand, would have held the scalpel for the doctor if he had suggested doing it in his rooms, right then and there.
She had the choice of Wednesday in a city hospital, a long and difficult drive from home, or in ten days' time at the local private hospital (very luxurious). She made it clear that she wants it out, NOW. Doesn't care about scars (there shouldn't be much, if any - he's going in through her navel, with only two other very tiny incisions below the bikini line). She just wants to begin to feel well again.
Looking at the ultrasound pics again, I'm more sure than ever that there's a foreign body in the appendix. The radiologist said it was probably a bubble, since she wasn't reacting as if in pain (yes, she was!) so according to him it probably wasn't a faecolith (a common finding in a grumbling appendix, and also an acute one I believe). I'm curious as to what pathology will find. I don't think it's a bubble. It was a bright white dot in the centre of the appendix on the scan, and it was there in several images so it wasn't an artefact. My bet - faecolith.
Wednesday is going to be busy - difficult child 3 is booked for a science excursion to Darling Harbour's new "Australian Wildlife Park". I wanted to go too, but now I'll have to get difficult child 1 to take his little brother. I'll call the school tomorrow to square it with them. Tomorrow is going to be my usual busy Tuesday, and somehow I've got to organise how we're going to manage the various trips to the city on Wednesday, and when. I'm not looking forward to Wednesday's running around, but I will be very glad when it's all over and we can bring easy child 2/difficult child 2 home.
Marg
