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Friday, September 5, 2008

Not What I Was Expecting

I got home from a week in Mexico (more to come later) last Tuesday night. I started getting a little stomache on Wednesday afternoon but thought I was suffering from a delayed case of Mexicoitis. I didn't think much of it until I woke up in the night with a sharp pain in my lower right abdomen. I got up Thursday morning not feeling well and still having the sharp pain. I called Michelle, nurse practitioner, on the way to work, and she suggested I go to the doctor. I went to an early morning meeting and made a doctor's appointment. I went on about my morning and went to the doctor. She sent me to the hospital for blood work and a CT scan. After 3 hours in radiology and having the tech tell me he would put my clothes in a bag, I knew I was staying. I got sent to the ER for 2 more hours of waiting before going to the OR to have my appendix taken out. Luckily my Utah family, the Martins, came to the hospital while I was still in the ER. My Utah/adopted mom, Carol Martin, is a nurse in the OR so she scrubbed in for the surgery. I felt much more comfortable and less scared with her there, and Tina spent the night at the hospital with me-so nice. I definitely wasn't expecting to come home from Mexico, work for a day and a half, have surgery and spend a day in the hospital, and be off work for another week recovering from surgery. Here are some pics of me in the hospital. Thanks for all the well wishes, cards, flowers, food, emails, visits, phone calls, etc. I really am doing quite well.



Waiting to go into the OR. I had lots of phone calls to make since this was so unexpected.
my appendix. sorry if this grosses you out. who knew it was so small?
getting ready to go home. i was so happy to have the IV out.
pretty flowers from my two good friends, Katie and Katey. thanks girls!

16 comments:

  1. so sad to hear...but I am glad that the martin family of nurses were able to take such good care of you!

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  2. Shriek! Ouch. I am so sorry. I hope you have a good recovery. Take care of yourself and eat lots of icecream (the official, get better food).

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  3. So sad, I'm glad your doing good now. Hope you recover fast.

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  4. Geez, Aubrey!!! I obviously don't talk to you enough...or ever! Are you OK? Are you still going to be able to run your marathon in a few weeks? And Mexiocitis? Great name! Get better soon! Love ya!

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  5. Wow! I am glad you took your friend's advice and went to your doctor. I am glad the surgery went well. I hope you are feeling better.

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  6. Aubrey...so sorry to hear about this. At least you caught it before it got horribly worse, right? I'm glad to hear that you are doing better now!

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  7. Whoa! Your appendix looks awesome! Sorry to hear that had to cut you up though, that sucks! Hope you're all better now. Love you and your nasty appendix!

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  8. Poor girl! Sorry I didn't know about it, or I would have called you, too! Hope you get feeling better soon!

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  9. I'm glad you are doing better now. We are looking forward to seeing you this week.

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  10. That is crazy! I hope you have a great recovery. Thank goodness it didn't act up while you were in Mexico!

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  11. wow aubrey, appendicitis stinks doesn't it. Did I tell you Steve and I had it both 6 months from each other. His ruptrued, mine didn't so I was out in a day or two, he was there in for the week. I hope you get better soon, I guess you won't be doing push ups in the next little bit! Mexicoitis...that totally made me laugh! Actually my 1st grade teacher had her appendix out in Mexico during her honeymoon back in the 80's. I bet you're glad it didn't happen down there!

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  12. Oh my word! How are you feeling? That is sooo crazy! And I love love love that you said Mexicoitis! HILARIOUS!

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  13. Oh Aubrey! I'm glad you're doing better! (I loved seeing the picture of the appendix. For real.)

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  14. Glad your surgery went well! I am also glad you made it back from Mexico before it all happened. Isn't surgery scary enough in the US?

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  15. Obviously I'm a little late in checking your blog! I'm sorry you had to go through that, but I'm so glad to hear that you're doing well! Best of luck with the marathon...but don't rupture anything else!!!

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