On Friday night, after my walk, I started to feel a general discomfort in my abdomen. Thinking it was...ahem...digestive troubles, I dismissed it. On Saturday morning it was still there, though, and as the morning progressed it became concentrated in my lower right abdomen. Around 2:00 I decided to go to Urgent Care, but when I called then they said that all abdominal pain needed to go directly to the ER. Two hours and an extremely uncomfortable cat scan later, I discovered that I had an inflamed appendix, and it needed to come out.
So, I had an emergency appendectomy around 7:00 last night, and was released from the hospital today around 2. I am extremely sore...my belly has 3 puncture wounds in it, each about the diameter of a pencil, and it's very distended. I'm pretty much laid up on my couch right now, with doc's orders to get up and move around for about 10 minutes every hour so as to prevent blood clots.
Soooooo...
Obviously, no working out for a while. Just when I was hitting a stride, too. Boooo. I think it might actually have been the 4.5 miles on Friday that partially aggravated it. I don't think it will be weeks or anything, but I at least want to wait until these steri-strip bandage things come off and the stitches dissolve. I'll start walking again in small doses...around the block at first, then go up from there. It will clearly take some time...it's difficult to imagine right now that all the pain will dissipate in a few days or so, but I know it will. I'll get back to walking when the pain is gone, I guess that's the best thing to say.
Ok, off to walk a little. Later. : )
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