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Update - Post Appendectomy
10 years ago
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Hey guys,
I haven't been on the past few weeks as I spent the first half of October in hospital.
I was admitted to hospital at 3am 29th September after 2 days of gradually increasing pain under my diaphragm resulting in violent vomiting, bouts of diarrhoea and severe dehydration. Hooked up to IV to hydrate my body as I carried on throwing up a lot of stomach acid until my x-ray. After this I was put in isolation on a ward as they seemed to think I may have a bowel infection. Pain continued, as well as lack of sleep without my mental health medication. Exhausted with no sleep for over 48 hours until I went for an ultrasound on the Wednesday. Consultant ended up getting a second opinion from another consultant whilst I was down there as my appendix was abnormal among other things. Get taken back onto the ward in sever pain. Tried flagging down a nurse for so long until my doctor finally returned and ordered for me to be given some morphine intravenously. First time on morphine and that stuff is amazing, felt so doped up and even alleviated the pain for an hour. The surgical team and anaesthetist came and talked to me about the surgery and decided to do keyhole surgery to remove my appendix.
I went into surgery that afternoon (Wednesday 30th September). After finally coming round from surgery at 1am, I had a hell of a rough night with the pain and lack of mental health meds (they contain a sedative which is the only thing that helps me sleep) keeping me awake. That day I start to feel abit better with painkillers given to me and believe I'm on the road to recovery.
Next day, I start to feel worse, which continues for the rest of the week and over the weekend. Monday morning comes around (5th October) and the surgical team are very surprised to still find me on the ward and in a lot of pain. They send me for a CT scan that afternoon. Results show that I have pus and infected fluid building up in my pelvic cavity after the keyhole appendectomy on my gangrenous appendix didn't go to plan. I'm sent back for emergency surgery that very afternoon.
Turns out I'm not the best patient when going under anaesthetic and my body tries to vomit, so I had a man pinching my throat this time as I went under. I woke up back on my ward at around 3am on my side and in a hell of a lot of pain. This time I'm a bit more successful with trying to sleep. The next morning I wake up to find that I have a drain coming out of one of the original wounds from the keyhole surgery and a nice wonky line of staples going from under my other wound under my bellybutton to my crotch. They had to slice right through my abdominal muscles this time. I had a man's hands inside me to manually break up the pus that had hardened inside me. I spend the next week or so receiving antibiotics intravenously as well as fluids.
Recovery was slow and I had a bit of a relapse on occasion. There was this one night where they tried to get my bowels moving which resulted in me throwing up this dark green stuff all over myself and my bed. I'd never felt more pathetic in my life. The nurses and staff on my ward were amazing and so attentive. I couldn't've asked for better people to take care of me whilst I was there. My drain had to be taken out as well. I thought my eyes were going to pop out of my head from the pain and the shock as I felt it being pulled out of my body. It was pretty long considering it had to reach right down into my pelvic cavity. Don't want to feel that ever again. Even my nurse was haunted by it, as she told me the next day.
Eventually, after being told a lot of "Tomorrow", I was released on Wednesday 14th October after 16 days and 2 surgeries in a week. I had my staples removed on the 17th and I look a right mess, but I'm so happy to be home!!!!!
I'm very lucky that I had
zuthilios visiting me everyday. He kept me pretty sane throughout and looked after my dog for me <3 
wolferyiff came as often as he could until he caught a cough and then ended up in hospital himself for 4 days/nights when his lung collapsed again. He's out now as well and off enjoying himself in London whilst he's off work :3
So yeah, if you read all that, you're a trooper :P I've got a good 6-8 weeks recovery time as my abdominal muscles knit back together, so no parkour for a good while which is gutting for me and it's going to be a good few weeks until I can walk Colt on my own again. Dex is looking after me in the meantime. I'm pretty lucky to have him around ^^
Since I'm housebound, there's a lot of artwork I want to get finished and start on. So expect some stuff in the near future!!!!!!
I haven't been on the past few weeks as I spent the first half of October in hospital.
I was admitted to hospital at 3am 29th September after 2 days of gradually increasing pain under my diaphragm resulting in violent vomiting, bouts of diarrhoea and severe dehydration. Hooked up to IV to hydrate my body as I carried on throwing up a lot of stomach acid until my x-ray. After this I was put in isolation on a ward as they seemed to think I may have a bowel infection. Pain continued, as well as lack of sleep without my mental health medication. Exhausted with no sleep for over 48 hours until I went for an ultrasound on the Wednesday. Consultant ended up getting a second opinion from another consultant whilst I was down there as my appendix was abnormal among other things. Get taken back onto the ward in sever pain. Tried flagging down a nurse for so long until my doctor finally returned and ordered for me to be given some morphine intravenously. First time on morphine and that stuff is amazing, felt so doped up and even alleviated the pain for an hour. The surgical team and anaesthetist came and talked to me about the surgery and decided to do keyhole surgery to remove my appendix.
I went into surgery that afternoon (Wednesday 30th September). After finally coming round from surgery at 1am, I had a hell of a rough night with the pain and lack of mental health meds (they contain a sedative which is the only thing that helps me sleep) keeping me awake. That day I start to feel abit better with painkillers given to me and believe I'm on the road to recovery.
Next day, I start to feel worse, which continues for the rest of the week and over the weekend. Monday morning comes around (5th October) and the surgical team are very surprised to still find me on the ward and in a lot of pain. They send me for a CT scan that afternoon. Results show that I have pus and infected fluid building up in my pelvic cavity after the keyhole appendectomy on my gangrenous appendix didn't go to plan. I'm sent back for emergency surgery that very afternoon.
Turns out I'm not the best patient when going under anaesthetic and my body tries to vomit, so I had a man pinching my throat this time as I went under. I woke up back on my ward at around 3am on my side and in a hell of a lot of pain. This time I'm a bit more successful with trying to sleep. The next morning I wake up to find that I have a drain coming out of one of the original wounds from the keyhole surgery and a nice wonky line of staples going from under my other wound under my bellybutton to my crotch. They had to slice right through my abdominal muscles this time. I had a man's hands inside me to manually break up the pus that had hardened inside me. I spend the next week or so receiving antibiotics intravenously as well as fluids.
Recovery was slow and I had a bit of a relapse on occasion. There was this one night where they tried to get my bowels moving which resulted in me throwing up this dark green stuff all over myself and my bed. I'd never felt more pathetic in my life. The nurses and staff on my ward were amazing and so attentive. I couldn't've asked for better people to take care of me whilst I was there. My drain had to be taken out as well. I thought my eyes were going to pop out of my head from the pain and the shock as I felt it being pulled out of my body. It was pretty long considering it had to reach right down into my pelvic cavity. Don't want to feel that ever again. Even my nurse was haunted by it, as she told me the next day.
Eventually, after being told a lot of "Tomorrow", I was released on Wednesday 14th October after 16 days and 2 surgeries in a week. I had my staples removed on the 17th and I look a right mess, but I'm so happy to be home!!!!!
I'm very lucky that I had
zuthilios visiting me everyday. He kept me pretty sane throughout and looked after my dog for me <3 
wolferyiff came as often as he could until he caught a cough and then ended up in hospital himself for 4 days/nights when his lung collapsed again. He's out now as well and off enjoying himself in London whilst he's off work :3So yeah, if you read all that, you're a trooper :P I've got a good 6-8 weeks recovery time as my abdominal muscles knit back together, so no parkour for a good while which is gutting for me and it's going to be a good few weeks until I can walk Colt on my own again. Dex is looking after me in the meantime. I'm pretty lucky to have him around ^^
Since I'm housebound, there's a lot of artwork I want to get finished and start on. So expect some stuff in the near future!!!!!!
