I am 15 now, but when i was 13 i had appendicitis. My experiance is quite similar to yours. I wasnt feeling well when i came home from school on a friday and started vomiting uncontrolably, I thought that i had gotten food poisoning from the school lunch. I surley could not keep any food or drink in my stomach for the next three days! Since i could not stop throwing up my parents took me to an emergency medical center where I got a shot to stop the vomiting and i also got bloodwork done. The results came back the next day and it said my white count was up more than usual, but for some reason the doctor nor my parents thought any thing of it. ( this all happened over three days friday, Saturday, and Sunday). Come Monday i went back to school and was walking extremely slow and hunched over, like an old crippled woman, and i began a fever around 101.2. So after school that day, my mom took me to the doctor and she said " your stomach is only hurting because you were throwing up so much the past weekend. It will go away soon, your muscles are just sore." I didnt eat anything at all. Tuesday i was forced to go to school once again, i just endures the pain of moving aroung school all day and went home.(nothing significant happened). Then on wednesday i was in my health class, my teacher gave us a free day, so all of my classmates were walking outside or drawing on the board. But i was sitting in the back of the class in a desk, with my head down. I was already wearing one jacket but i kept feeling so cold, so i then borrowed one of my friends jackets and put that on aswell. I was still freezing ( no exageration) and i remember that i kept thinking to myself " why is it so so cold in here?!!" About 5 minutes later i was shaking and shivering uncontrolably, no matter how tightley i clenched my body i couldnt stop shivering. I then asked my teacher to go to the office and i called home. My mom picked me up early and took me to the doctor once again and i specifically pointed out that the rightside of my abdomen was still hurting. She thought nothing of it and told my mom that she was being a " worry wart". I went back to school again on thursday and stayed the full day and when i came home my mom checked my temperature 102.5 ( still the same fever, i had been running one the entire week!) She finally had enough, she looked up my symptoms on the internet and thought i might have appendicitis, my father then dorve me to the emergency room ( at 11:30 at night). there they asked me continually " are you pregnant?!" i said no. " are you sure?!". The doctors decided to give me a cat scan . Usually this can be done right away they just have to inject iodine into the IV , but with just my luck, im alergic to iodine. so i spent four hours drinking this disguting white paste , i couldnt hold it down and started throwing it up everywhere. the cat scan technician came in and asked why i was taking so long and i told him. he said he would try and see if i had enough in me for the scan to work, and it did. I had a hole or something in my appendix. ( it was now friday morning around 3 or 4 the ambulence picked me up and took me to another hospital for sergery. On the ride there it was very bumpy so the nurse riding with me kept asking if my stomach was hurting , i said no. she said that most kids with appendicitis stomach's usualy hurt on the ambulence ride. But my pain was gone ( it wasnt hurting because i had ruptured already) i didnt know. After i got out of surgery the doctor had informed me that when she went in, my appendix had already burst. ( this was still friday) I was supposed to get out on monday but things took a turn for the worst. When i got the x-ray to make sure everything was back to normal, it wasnt, my intestines stop working and the infection was spreading to the rest of my organs. so three days later ( tuesday) i went in for another surgery. The doctors took out all of my organs and cleaned them. i now had a 14 inch scar. I was then in the hospital for three - four weeks for recovery time.
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I am 15 now, but when i was 13 i had appendicitis. My experiance is quite similar to yours. I wasnt feeling well when i came home from school on a friday and started vomiting uncontrolably, I thought that i had gotten food poisoning from the school lunch. I surley could not keep any food or drink in my stomach for the next three days! Since i could not stop throwing up my parents took me to an emergency medical center where I got a shot to stop the vomiting and i also got bloodwork done. The results came back the next day and it said my white count was up more than usual, but for some reason the doctor nor my parents thought any thing of it. ( this all happened over three days friday, Saturday, and Sunday). Come Monday i went back to school and was walking extremely slow and hunched over, like an old crippled woman, and i began a fever around 101.2. So after school that day, my mom took me to the doctor and she said " your stomach is only hurting because you were throwing up so much the past weekend. It will go away soon, your muscles are just sore." I didnt eat anything at all. Tuesday i was forced to go to school once again, i just endures the pain of moving aroung school all day and went home.(nothing significant happened). Then on wednesday i was in my health class, my teacher gave us a free day, so all of my classmates were walking outside or drawing on the board. But i was sitting in the back of the class in a desk, with my head down. I was already wearing one jacket but i kept feeling so cold, so i then borrowed one of my friends jackets and put that on aswell. I was still freezing ( no exageration) and i remember that i kept thinking to myself " why is it so so cold in here?!!" About 5 minutes later i was shaking and shivering uncontrolably, no matter how tightley i clenched my body i couldnt stop shivering. I then asked my teacher to go to the office and i called home. My mom picked me up early and took me to the doctor once again and i specifically pointed out that the rightside of my abdomen was still hurting. She thought nothing of it and told my mom that she was being a " worry wart". I went back to school again on thursday and stayed the full day and when i came home my mom checked my temperature 102.5 ( still the same fever, i had been running one the entire week!) She finally had enough, she looked up my symptoms on the internet and thought i might have appendicitis, my father then dorve me to the emergency room ( at 11:30 at night). there they asked me continually " are you pregnant?!" i said no. " are you sure?!". The doctors decided to give me a cat scan . Usually this can be done right away they just have to inject iodine into the IV , but with just my luck, im alergic to iodine. so i spent four hours drinking this disguting white paste , i couldnt hold it down and started throwing it up everywhere. the cat scan technician came in and asked why i was taking so long and i told him. he said he would try and see if i had enough in me for the scan to work, and it did. I had a hole or something in my appendix. ( it was now friday morning around 3 or 4 the ambulence picked me up and took me to another hospital for sergery. On the ride there it was very bumpy so the nurse riding with me kept asking if my stomach was hurting , i said no. she said that most kids with appendicitis stomach's usualy hurt on the ambulence ride. But my pain was gone ( it wasnt hurting because i had ruptured already) i didnt know. After i got out of surgery the doctor had informed me that when she went in, my appendix had already burst. ( this was still friday) I was supposed to get out on monday but things took a turn for the worst. When i got the x-ray to make sure everything was back to normal, it wasnt, my intestines stop working and the infection was spreading to the rest of my organs. so three days later ( tuesday) i went in for another surgery. The doctors took out all of my organs and cleaned them. i now had a 14 inch scar. I was then in the hospital for three - four weeks for recovery time.
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