Thursday, October 22, 2009

A ”cute” appendicitis

Yep of course I’m talking about Kali. What part of her isn’t cute?

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After having stomach aches for most of the week, we knew there might be something seriously wrong when she came home Friday night a full 2 hours before curfew. That is just not like her. Then when I woke up Saturday morning, I found her sitting at the computer researching appendicitis on the internet. The biggest clue here is that it was SATURDAY at 7:30am, even if the house was on fire I would still have to drag her out of bed. But she wasn’t doubled over or crying… hmmm time for the “fail proof test” stand on that chair and jump to the floor. If she collapsed to the floor writhing in pain then we would head straight for the ER, do not pass go , etc., etc. Instead she jumped and landed on her feet with barely a grimace. Well I had a very busy day ahead of me and this just wasn’t in the plan. I asked if she wanted to go straight to the Dr and she said she could wait till Dad woke up and could take her. Okay who am I to argue with that.

Fast forward several hours and Kali is in the ER with her Dad waiting for the results of the CT scan. I am pretending not to be distracted as I am finishing my last session of 4 back to back sessions that day. Just knowing that my poor needle phobic daughter had her first IV and I wasn’t there holding her hand was really starting to get to me. Thinking of her hearing the news of having surgery without being by her side was killing me. I got to the Hospital as soon as I could and found out they had already called in the on call surgeon. Kali would be having surgery that night and as quickly as possible for acute appendicitis. So much for the “fail proof test”.

Anthony was a champ and had spent the day with Kali calming her fears and just being the amazing Dad that he is. He left to go get some food as soon as they took her for surgery. Now I am totally alone in an empty waiting room that doesn’t have any cell phone reception. I start to think about how far we have advanced medically and that people used to die from this. I am so grateful that Kali won’t even have to be cut wide open because they are going in laparoscopically. The surgeon comes in to tell me they are finished early and that everything went perfectly and since I work at the hospital I am welcome to join Kali in the recovery room. (I am a back up tech for the gastroenterology department, and had not worked for over 1 1/2 years before that very week when I was covering a few days for someone out of town) I see the advantage so I take it. Oops. I wish I had stayed in the waiting room. Coming out of anesthesia is not a pleasant thing. Lots of disorientation and writhing in pain till you become fully awake and aware of what is going on.

Anthony came back in time to sneak a peek in the recovery room also. He agreed that if we ever go through this again we will pass on that opportunity. We followed Kali upstairs to the regular hospital floor, Anthony said goodnight and headed home to check on the rest of our kiddos.  I settled in for a long night of watching Kali sleep peacefully and remembered all the sights, sounds and smells of hospital life. One of Kali’s closest friends came to visit that night for a few hours and I welcomed the distraction. 

This is what she looked like most of the time.

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The next day she woke up  quite a bit more and even got to walk the halls before she could go home.

hospital life…

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and of course this was the best part… coming home.

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5 comments:

Darilyn said...

Thank goodness she is all right. What a sweet girl and she is very fortunate to have such great parents.

Franziska Patterson said...

I don't know if it's the facial expression, but she sure reminded me a LOT of Quinn in the first few pictures. :)

Also, I think appendicitis can be very hidden. When they took mine out, I just went to the ER because of annoying stomach pains, but when the surgeon came in prodding my stomach, and all, it didn't hurt one bit. They did two CT scans to make sure it was really my appendix. You just never know with that silly little addage.

Quinn said...

Nice to have the full story and to see that she recovered well. We just don't seem able to connect lately. Maybe I'll catch you today, but I've got to take Jeffrey to the ear doctors in a neighboring city and that very often is a whole day excursion.

Gretchen said...

I was so happy to see her at Young Women's last Wednesday. She looked great and by Sunday was her old, happy, crazy self. So glad everything went well and she is back to her old tricks!

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