At 2 a.m. Valentine's morning I woke up with some serious pain in my belly and after trying some home remedies and every position possible to try and get comfortable with no success, I finally woke Rob up at 7:30 and we went to the Vanderbilt emergency room. After 4 hours of waiting and of telling at least 5 different people the exact same thing, someone finally said that they would give me something to relieve the pain. They poked me and prodded me a little and decided because of tenderness I had on my right side, that they wanted to take a CT scan. After seeing that my appendix was a little swollen, they decided to do surgery because this was the early stages of appendicitis. So at 1:30 they told me that they were about to put the anesthesia in me and I don't remember anything after that until 3 hours later when I woke up in recovery. The surgery only took 33 minutes, but I was out for quite a bit afterwards. I stayed last night in the hospital and got home about noon today.
Warning: I will show you a picture of my bandages because the doctors were so festive and cut them into heart shapes. However, my stomach is huge because during surgery they pump your belly full of air in order to work in there better and the air stays in your system for a while. You can also see where they wrote on my stomach to make sure that they did the right kind of surgery. So this will definitely be a Valentine's Day that I will always remember. P.S. I did get some flowers out of the whole thing.....so not a whole Valentine's Day gone to waste I guess :)
