Appendix

Originally posted by Very Rusty
Who says there isn't a God?

Um, thanks for the non-sequitar reply - but rather than fall into some theological discussion, I was hoping for some direct medical experience relating to the appendix.

Have you had yours removed? If so, was it simple (if operations involving general anaesthetic and intestinal tissue removal could be called "simple" ), or were there "complications" - that's all I'm trying to establish.

Originally posted by ChessPraxis
I am glad your son is doing better.
I've no experience myself with appendectomies.

Thank you.

Until last Monday - that was my experience also: i.e. Appendix? the bit at the end of the book?

My son is now like a third rate study book - with no appendix, how is he going to cite enough references to make Wikipedia??

Originally posted by orangutan
Thank you.

Until last Monday - that was my experience also: i.e. Appendix? the bit at the end of the book?

My son is now like a third rate study book - with no appendix, how is he going to cite enough references to make Wikipedia??

Without an appendix, he'll have to be a novel.

Originally posted by orangutan
Do you still have one?

If not, what's your experience of having it removed?

My son has just had a burst appendix removed. Quite nasty. He's been in hospital for over a week now and looks set to be in there for at least till the weekend.
The operation apparently went well, but there was a lot of infected material and he's picked up a post operative ...[text shortened]... he's going to be OK.

I just wondered what other people have experienced with this?

Glad your son is OK as a burst appendix can be a real issue. When I was a lad (1950ish) the powers that be were sure that's what I had..turned out to be Jaundice(didn't have the "modern technologies" eh?).

Originally posted by orangutan

Do you still have one?

If not, what's your experience of having it removed?

My son has just had a burst appendix removed. Quite nasty. He's been in hospital for over a week now and looks set to be in there for at least till the weekend.
The operation apparently went well, but there was a lot of infected material and he's picked up a post operativ he's going to be OK.

I just wondered what other people have experienced with this?

Maybe I could be of help, having undergone an eight hour emergency high risk all night surgery for the removal of an appendix, diseased gall bladder and removal/repair of a herniated umbilical cord on Monday, January 3, 2012. Two vertical rows an inch apart of tiny forty staples and several hundred internal stitches and a raft of netting were required to hold what was left of my guts from protruding through the abominal wall. Catheterization, an excruciatingly uncomfortable 24/7 velcro 'bandage' from sternum to groin and a ten day stay at a major hospital with a regime of a dozen pills and liquid diet were involved. Next day, after 4-5 hours chemical sleep, protocol required that the shell of a man in ICU Bed #407-A crawl out of the sack to perform daily ablutions and begin theraphy which included attempting to ambulate the disinfectant reeking nursing station area in an open and drafty back door blue print hospital gown, clutching my catheter collection bag in one hand and my other (already tattoed black and blue from bigger than I expected needles) hanging onto Roxanne's Shoulder while my sorry arse was sucking wind up and down those now hallowed halls. Of course my playful mouth instinctively tried banter and joking around to amuse my caregivers and neutralize the persistent gnawing pain. Complications included getting my puss badly nicked by an inept Certified Nursing Associate trying to shave my wicked coarse sandpaper whiskers and lower leg edema which systematic lab work eventually corrected with injections to first thin and then, when I became an unexpected skin bleeder, to thicken to some middle ground consistency. I can handle horse pills and shots. Liquid form medicines, however, were the worst. Ugh!

Three weeks later back 'home' in the skilled care nursing home (still sporting the catheter and debilitating velcro body binder) a few of the lower left side fluid drainage site stitches let go. Of course caused by yours truly, bent on independence, trying to pick up a magazine I had clumsily dropped on the polished floor. Another ambulance ride with sirens blaring and lights lit back to the same hospital but in a different ward for four days observation following the resuturing and transfusions. Month later, on 2011 Super Bowl Sunday first week of February the bloody and stained compression bandage came off. Had it launderd as a kinky souvenir of the ordeal. It's packed away in a plastic bag on the upper shelf of my closet, in case you'd like to see it or try it on. Remained there in the nursing home for demanding physical therapy to strengthen my legs (weakened by the sudden paralysis just before Christmas, 2010, which resulted in my confinement in the first place) for the next twelve months. All said and done, my recovery from the near death experience was acclaimed as a miracle. In fact, one of the major city teevision channels got wind of it and produced a professional two minute clip with a guided tour of the facility by the chief administrator and myself. Few YouTube copies were given to me which I mailed to my family. This past April 2 I finally escaped and am now back among the living, enjoying my brand new comfortable man-pad, cooking up a storm, harvesting the garden, regaining some of the 59 pounds I lost and trying manfully as Sisyphus to get my RHP Chess Rating back up to where it had plateaued in the Summer of 2010.

Enuff about me. Hold old is your son? Was he in relatively good health prior to the onset of the appendicitis attack? My heart goes out to him. Please tell him to feel free to ask any specific questions at all he might have. If he's laptop savvy, which I assume he is, I'll be glad to furnish hin anemail addresss confidentially for his personal use only as an alternative to middle man with you on RHP. Just occurs to me that he'd better remove the gbaway protective suite if he's interested in seeing my replies. Remind him that in due time this too shall passand, in the meanwhile, to "Smile Anyway". Kind regards, gb

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Originally posted by HandyAndy
Without an appendix, he'll have to be a novel.

A novel idea Andy. 🙂

Originally posted by Grampy Bobby
Maybe I could be of help, having undergone an eight hour emergency high risk all night surgery for the removal of an appendix, diseased gall bladder and removal/repair of a herniated umbilical cord on Monday, January 3, 2012.

An eight hour emergency high risk surgery with what you describe wouldn't necessarily be a resultant of a burst appendix. In fact, a herniated umbilical chord could have just have been the resultant of the point of entry to deal with your gall bladder issue. Most stomach incisions are done through the Linea alba, or white line of the stomach, the divider of left and right entry for stomach incisions. Appendices are generally removed during any stomach opening, as standard practice, as the appendix is now non-functional in near all, 99.99% of humans, but can cause later problems.
Herniated umbilical cords are generally, and a very high percentage, found in obese women who are pregnant, 99.8 % between woman and foetus.
So your initial 2 paragraphs are really irrelevant to Orangu's questions, unless you had a recent sex change?

Source of stats: Reliable, in Thailand. 😉

However, for info Orang.... my source says watch out for hardened stomach from now, for the next 12-24 hours, if no hardening - even if it hurts him to press it, then all should be ok. She is simply saying watch out for peritonisis, as that can happen at the later stages - but, she said, he will be in good hands, and they should also be monitoring for that!

Likelihood is, 'He's thru the worst, and it's pretty much over, part from a little scar! 😉

-m.

Originally posted by Grampy Bobby
Enuff about me.

Could there have been any more...?

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And you still don't notice a difference.