Well, it HAS been awhile since I've checked. Sorry, I'm a slacker. Imagine my confusion when having to do all this new Google stuff. Now that I'm home on sick leave, (spelling, Dad, is "convalescent") got a little time on my hands since I'm supposed to be taking it easy and can't do what I want around here. I don't see what the big deal is, now that it's over, except a little tenderness around the incision by my belly button.
Timeline:
Sunday went to ER in Macon in horrible pain. Doc gave me some kind of med to relax the stomach muscles, which helped a little bit, and sent me home, telling me I was okay.
Monday I drove up to Ft Bragg.
Tuesday went to sick call in the morning to get a profile because I knew I couldn't do any kind of exercise. Made an appointment for that afternoon (3pm) so it wouldn't get in the way of my inprocessing. That doctor ordered a CT scan of my appendix immediately, prescribed some antibiotics for me if it came back negative. Told me to go to ER if it came back positive. Finally got out of radiology around 7:30/8pm and went to ER. Had my consult with the surgeon between 10-10:30pm. Headed up to surgical ward around 11:30ish. Didn't really have any pain until Wed morning around 1:30 am. Doc originally had put morphine and percocet on my charts for pain, but I got him to change it to tylenol and motrin (ibuprofen) because I hate the way those narcotics make me feel. Never had morphine, but had percocet in Iraq.
They made 3 little holes in me: one by my left hip to put the scope in, one by my belly button (where most of the action was, to include pulling out the "bomb", and one 2 inches up and to the right from my belly button. The only one that is still sensitive is the one by my belly button. I didn't even get stitches the incisions were so small; surgeon used steri-strips. Unlike the diagram, my surgeon stapled the end of the appendix instead of stitching it.
I had just started my inprocessing last tuesday. So, I still don't know which unit I'm going to, just that I'll be part of the XVIII Airborne Corps and NOT 82nd Airborne Div. Think I'd rather be with those guys - they're all on their way home from Iraq and Afghanistan. Corps is heading back to Iraq in a month or so, although I don't know which brigades and units from Corps are going. I just hope I can get to jump school before I go. Hope I'm not one of them, although the money will be nice if I do. Hope I can make the camping trip.
Well, true to Byrum nature, I've run my mouth long enough. Mom said I'd send a more detailed update, so I did. Y'all take care.
Chris
1 comment:
Chris, thanks for the blow by blow. I didn't realize that you had gone to the ER before leaving Macon. You were fortunate that it did not rupture. By now you are probably good as new or maybe better. Hope that things go well for you in the army. Will the family be joining you at Fort Bragg? I think Cathy and Jeremy are about an hour away.
Oh, by the way, someone needs to post another blog entry. We really don't like looking at an intestine each time we open the blog. Too many painful memories. But we won't dwell on those.
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