ER and Surgery

This weekend was a little bit different.

The security guards at UVRMC are used to my coming in late on Saturday night to visit Jessica at work (Jessica's sister, Jenessa, who lives with us, listens for the boys while I visit her), but this last Saturday was a bit different. At about midnight I checked in at the security desk, but this time it was because Jessica was in surgery getting her appendix removed.

I took her to the ER at 5:00 on Saturday afternoon. We spent two and a half hours in the waiting room as the pain in her belly got progressively worse. After getting a room in the ER we waited another hour or so before a physician was able to see her--two minutes before the pain subsided significantly and she was feeling kind of silly about being there. But after another hour or so and a CT scan, it was determined that she indeed had appendicitis (the doctor called it a "slam dunk diagnosis"), and that she needed to have that little, apparently useless, organ removed.

The surgeon visited us and told us he had another appendectomy scheduled at 11:00, so he would operate on Jessica afterwards. So then another hour passed and a tech assistant from the OR came and wheeled Jessica off to surgery. She was brought out around 1:30 am and admitted to her own unit (Pediatrics) where her friends took excellent care of her.

She is now home and in a lot of pain, but at least not septic from a bursting appendix...