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Posted on 1/24/23 at 8:33 am to Tic44
Just had a friend who passed away from sepsis - get that thing OUT.
Posted on 1/24/23 at 9:01 am to CamdenTiger
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fecalith
Latin for "shite rock," but somehow not related to Def Lepard.
Posted on 1/24/23 at 9:03 am to LSUrme
These days they make a pair of tiny incisions and go in with a scope. Not like the 6" scar I sport now from a 70's appendectomy when it burst (complete with ether dripped into a gauze cone!).
Posted on 1/24/23 at 9:05 am to aTmTexas Dillo
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Just like a couple of guys I knew in High School, I always hoped I'd get appendicitis and get some time off from school. Never happened. I didn't even get a day off from work. I'm retired now and still have my wonderful appendix.
Christmas morning sophomore year of high school. Not only no time off school, but basically fully recovered by time school started. No one believed I had been in the hospital.
Posted on 1/24/23 at 9:09 am to dakarx
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Not like the 6" scar I sport now from a 70's appendectomy when it burst (complete with ether dripped into a gauze cone!).
I had an emergency appendectomy in the 80s. Looks like someone hit me with a hatchet in a few places
Posted on 1/24/23 at 9:15 am to kook
They used to have this done whenever you had other work done in the area but this was decades ago.
Posted on 1/24/23 at 9:17 am to Tic44
When we lived in ATL my oldest was complaining of stomach pains and I also told him to suck it up. After two days he went to the Dr and then to the ER at Childrens Hospital (Egleston). It had burst, they admitted him and put him on heavy antibiotics and he stayed there a week. They said that if they went in immediately there was a 90% chance of infection. He went home after a week and stayed on antibiotics and then 6 weeks later they took it out laparoscopically as an outpatient procedure. That was in 2008. I thought they were crazy, but it worked out fine.
Posted on 1/24/23 at 9:19 am to Tic44
Antibiotics is almost the standard of care now in Europe. It's cheaper and you never know if a person will need to start digesting wood again.
Posted on 1/24/23 at 9:20 am to BigB0882
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I just don’t think many people catch it early
I caught mine super early and it was still gone by the end of the day
Posted on 1/24/23 at 9:21 am to Tic44
My wife had an appendectomy while she was pregnant. It was nerve racking at the time.
Posted on 1/24/23 at 9:31 am to Tic44
It’s probably not a good idea to bang his wife while he’s in the hospital.
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