80 Life-or-Death Moments When Gut Feelings Became Unshakeable Lifelines
This was recent but my appendix ruptured a few weeks ago. I have a chronic illness already so my pain tolerance is quite high. I noticed my stomach was hurting a little extra for a few days, then on a Monday it got a little worse. Turns out I walked around and did my normal workday and activities for 3 full days with a ruptured appendix. I wasn’t in a ton of pain or anything but I kept getting this bad feeling, so I finally just decided to go to urgent care to make sure. They sent me to the ER and I was rushed into surgery.
My appendix ruptured. I drive myself to the hospital, walked in the emergency doors, and told them I was almost certain my appendix had ruptured. They wanted to wait for pregnancy tests (impossible), blood labs, and COVID test before finally doing a CT and rushing me off to surgery. I’m lucky I went in when I did instead of waiting until it got worse, because I couldn’t afford any more time than that. Spent 3 days in the hospital on IV antibiotics, basically having a dissociative episode the whole time.
My husbands gut feeling, not mine. I was sick in bed with what I thought was the flu, we had 2 small babies at home so I quarantined in our room while my husband kept the babies away. I hate taking meds but I was miserable so I was taking dayquil cold and flu daytime once a day and nyquil cold and flu so I could fall asleep. Around 9 pm I was passed the eff out, my husband put the kids to bed and had a feeling he needed to check on me immediately, I was cold to the touch but had a 104 fever, he called my mom in law over (she didnt live far) picked me up and rushed me to his truck and got me to the ER. I had a kidney infection and my liver was shutting down. Had he not taking me when he did I would have died in my sleep. I was in the ICU for 8 days.I dont remember anything until I woke up the next day, they had given me morphine and I puked it all up (dont remember that) I forever owe my life to him.
Edit- its nyquil, i am dumb.
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