11-28-2011, 01:55 AM
stanc Wrote:Well, if you didn't know it was a ruptured appendix, then you weren't really stupid, you were just ignorant.
Am also very glad you got to the hospital in time, and that you seem well on the way to full recovery.
P.S. Nice to be able to "hunt" in your back yard...
Yeah I was just ignorant I'd say, but now if anything is ever that excruciating again I'm going in without waiting a couple of days to see if it'll go away.LOL
Back Yard: I try not to "hunt" there, because it's too easy, but I do have quite a lot of traffic cruising through there between the fields across the road and the bedding areas behind my property. I don't usually see much in the way of decent bucks at the house, so I usually hunt on my brothers farm where my odds are better.
hm2 clark Wrote:How would you expect to reconise a ruptured appediex if you never had one before? Glad your still with us. I started taking my daughter into the woods to look for sign around 4 y/o. Started hunting wih her sitting in my lap around 6. Man those were good days. Around 9 y/o she was big enough to carry her own Grendel. Now..she is 15 and sees, hears shoots and fights better then me. I'm a better hunter though She just sits there pretending to be full of teenage angst in her blind texing boya and pretending to hunt. Enjoy the family. It's good when you can keep connecting to your kids as they grow up.True, I wondered (for about 2 minutes) if it could be my appendix, but then discounted it because it wasn't localised on my right front side. I was having generalized pain throughout my abdomen and horrible cramps there and in my lower back. I couldn't figure out what it was. My fever was 103.7 w/lots of ibuprofen etc. When the wife hauled me in to the hospital I don't know what it was then. I went from pale blue to what everyone said was a bonafide grey in color by the time I got there. I was infected clear through from my diaphragm to my pelvis and they could hardly get a urine sample because my kidneys/UT were infected too. It basicaly sucked all 'round.
PSA #1: If anyone reading this ever has really bad pains in your gut-- go see a doc.
PSA #2: If you are ever put on IV Flagyl(Metranidazole) and get horribly nauseous and puke whenever food even goes past your door--- that's a clue that it's probably the Flagyl....LOL I had a bunch of other drugs (which I tried blaming) but that one was the winner in the end. Start new drip = nausea followed by puke. Horrible taste, staining, even smell sensitivity. Couldn't take a whiz without getting sick (once off catheter) from the Flagyl caused stench. What a hoot!LOL
PSA #3: The doc pulling the drain tubes out of your guts? Wowzer, that was... exhillarating!!!LOL
Hunting with your daughter: Sounds like you did it right! I hope to enjoy it too!
I'm trying not to even think about the future occurence of the teenage years. I'm just trying to really enjoy the "right now" part.LOL I hate to even think of her growing up when she's such an awesome pleasure right now!!!