I’ll be down for a bit. You see, while I thought I was only passing a kidney stone week before last, my appendix had actually started a slow leak and then somehow according to the surgeon self-cauterized itself until this past Friday night, when I started feeling some pains in my abdomen. By Saturday night at 7:00 I was in white pain, bringing tears and screams of pain.

My son and I were at the lake and I slept in the living room so he wouldn’t hear my cussing and moaning, just trying to not scare the kid. Being a typical guy I figured they’d go away with a good night’s sleep. Boy, was I wrong. By 6 a.m. I couldn’t bear it any longer and had him drive me to the hospital. Every bump we hit felt like a thousand knives going into my abdomen.

Soon I was on the operating table and I now no longer possess an appendix. I do however have this nice looking caterpillar-like scar sealed shut with metal staples. They had to open me all the way up as opposed to laparoscopic surgery so they could scrub the poison out of my lower abdomen with a saline-based antibotic solution. August has not been my month.

I’m going to take a couple of Darvocets and go to bed. And yes, typing this hurt like hell but it’s good fodder for a Blog

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