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Offline mjbgalt

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might save your life
« on: March 21, 2010, 03:20:17 AM »
anyone who has what they think is gas pains...do you feel full? lose your appetite? tender to press on your upper right bladder area? a little nausea? get your butt to the ER. it might be your appendix... i was hours from mine bursting, and that can cause you to not be alive any longer if you wait too long and the infection gets a head start.

this is a decided negative thing. emergency surgery is nothing ...compared to the possibly deadly outcome. "just a stomach thing" can be pretty dangerous.

i couldn't sleep on tuesday night due to the pain and discomfort and so i went in.

i didn't have the classic symptoms and i wasn't sure what the heck was going on. i hate being in the hospital and it took 2 days before i could get out and i am still recovering. but it was worth it.

and if someone tells you appendicitis hurts like you know what, they ain't lyin' :)

-Matt
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Re: might save your life
« Reply #1 on: March 21, 2010, 03:32:27 AM »
Thanks for the heads up and speedy recovery to ya.
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Re: might save your life
« Reply #2 on: March 21, 2010, 04:19:15 AM »
i didn't know i HAD abs until they hurt like this.

i thought i had them sufficiently protected with my beer containment system.
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Re: might save your life
« Reply #3 on: March 21, 2010, 05:09:36 AM »
Quote from: mjbgalt on March 21, 2010, 03:20:17 AM
anyone who has what they think is gas pains...do you feel full? lose your appetite? tender to press on your upper right bladder area? a little nausea? get your butt to the ER. it might be your appendix... i was hours from mine bursting, and that can cause you to not be alive any longer if you wait too long and the infection gets a head start.

this is a decided negative thing. emergency surgery is nothing ...compared to the possibly deadly outcome. "just a stomach thing" can be pretty dangerous.

i couldn't sleep on tuesday night due to the pain and discomfort and so i went in.

i didn't have the classic symptoms and i wasn't sure what the heck was going on. i hate being in the hospital and it took 2 days before i could get out and i am still recovering. but it was worth it.

and if someone tells you appendicitis hurts like you know what, they ain't lyin' :)

-Matt


I have already had all those symptoms, and almost died. That was about 45 years ago, and after the surgery I spent 11 days in intensive care, and about 2 months with a drainage tube in my right side. The incision was also left open to heal, and had to be scrubbed every day until it bled. Since everyone in my house at the time was plagued with a weak stomach, and a soft heart I had to do it laying on a bed on plastic sheeting. It just sucked to do that..
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Re: might save your life
« Reply #4 on: March 21, 2010, 05:17:23 AM »
niiiiice.

sounds like a good "bedtime story for the grandkids" someday.

i was busy being grouchy and sore. dunno if i could have been nice and polite for that long.
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Re: might save your life
« Reply #5 on: March 21, 2010, 05:19:35 AM »
Mine had been ruptured for hours before I got to the doctor. I thought I was just sore because a horse had fell on me, but it was more.
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« Reply #6 on: March 21, 2010, 05:26:11 AM »
Well glad you made it mjb! I can imagine the "after" pain cause i went through open heart surgery in 05. Recovering from that was no picnic either. good luck with the recovery and then you can use the beer containment system again!  ;D
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« Reply #7 on: March 21, 2010, 05:52:03 AM »
oh well i am way way better off than you were. i mean, i am sore and it hurts to cough. but every day is better and i'm probably 75% back after 4 days. i heal fast but this is a walk in the park compared to heart stuff.
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« Reply #8 on: March 21, 2010, 05:59:49 AM »
Yea, I had this thing where I would be walking and start coughing and pass out and wake up on the floor, my daughter walked in one day and thought i had bought the farm.  :o  but it gets better!  I am surprised that I did not become a prescription drug addict. did ya get some pain meds?
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« Reply #9 on: March 21, 2010, 06:06:01 AM »
i did get vicodin, and they used morphine on me a bit.

but i quit taking the vicodin on day 2. just no need. i take 2 tylenol every 4 or 5 hours and i grit my teeth a bit.
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« Reply #10 on: March 21, 2010, 06:09:46 AM »
Yea good for you! i had a sleep cocktail that I used to be able to lat down, it consisted of a vicodin and a xanax, then I could lay down till it wore off. Slept sittin up for weeks, I was scared i wouldnt wake up.  it gets better!
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Re: might save your life
« Reply #11 on: March 21, 2010, 03:39:12 PM »
going back to work tuesday.
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Re: might save your life
« Reply #12 on: March 21, 2010, 04:49:13 PM »
Good for you! Good luck with that, dont over do it!
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Re: might save your life
« Reply #13 on: March 21, 2010, 06:29:35 PM »
Glad it's working for ya, Matt. You've had a rough coupla years. Seems like once ya hit 40, recuperation sure takes a lot longer.
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Re: might save your life
« Reply #14 on: March 21, 2010, 07:43:48 PM »
i haven't even hit 30 yet, thats this summer.
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Re: might save your life
« Reply #15 on: March 22, 2010, 02:31:22 AM »
 my daddy was i think 14 or so an his bursted at home.... he was fortunate enough to have his oldest sister zell
a nurse,, drop by,, cause the family didn t even know it was gonna killim..she had him in the emergency room quick as her car of 19 20 version could get him there..hence im here this morning posting to you fine folk..
 he always gave her credit an respect for saving his life..as it was, he missed a year of school..
 mine went out a 12 yrs old..met a pretty little 13 yr old girl in the hospital room.. i kept worrying about her seeing my fanny as they didn t keep them gowns tied in the back :D.. always will wonder what happen to her.. slim
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Re: might save your life
« Reply #16 on: March 22, 2010, 05:20:46 PM »
 5th. grade, 1956, Doc was treating me for Stomach Flu. Last I remember was my Dad carrying me down the Hospital corridor. Woke up a week later with tubes coming out of my side. Burst Appendix. I can still smell the Either that was used to knock you out...not a fun time. God speed on your recovery.
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Re: might save your life
« Reply #17 on: March 22, 2010, 05:47:31 PM »
i'd rather spend more time 'healing.'

too many toxic personalities at work, and don't get paid worth a damn anyway.
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