Apendix Bursted on friday & now im off work for??

[summit583guy]

busiest time of the year for a tree worker and my apendix decides it's going to conk out on friday. Anybody have any experience with this? recovery time etc? I booked a week off work to start hoping I can itleast go in next week and do some light duty things around the shop and maintain some saws.

 

[BuddhaKat]

You didn't mention whether you had surgery or not, but given that you're here I'm guessing you did. Otherwise you'd be dead by now.

Give it at least 7-10 days. It would have been a lot less if you weren't such a tough guy and went to the doc sooner. You would have been back on the job in 3 or 4 days then.

A burst appendix is MASSIVELY serious. Lots, and I mean lots of people die from it. Getting to the hospital asap is critical.

 

[summit583guy]

I waited about 8 hours after I started getting the pain untill i went to the emergency room. I was thinking it was just going to pass, not knowing it was my appendix. so yes ive had the surgery, and they were able to it liproscopic? ( unsure of the spelling ) basically they didn't have to make a large cut in my stomach.

 

[Jumper]

I have been having a lot of discomfort in that area as well. Colonoscopy this aft

 

[dingeryote]

OWWW!!!!!

Give yourself at least two weeks for things to heal.

If ya tear up the docs patches and plugs on your plumbing, it will be even MORE time off.

Factor in that Docs ain't gotta clue on the kind of wear and tear a Saddle and tree work puts on the Human body. You do though.

A lot of times with internal inurys, there wont be much pain untill it's too dadgum late, like with your appendix.

Once ya get dead, the paychecks really suck.

Stay safe!
Dingeryote

 

[Pain Cow]

Could you describe the location and nature of the pain? Just curious in case mine would blow up I'd know what to suspect? Any symptoms beforehand?

 

[Jumper]

Really bad pain lower right side of intestines. Sometimes with fever and elevated white blood cell counts if infection has really set in.

 

[BuddhaKat]

Really bad pain lower right side of intestines. Sometimes with fever and elevated white blood cell counts if infection has really set in.

It'll be very tender to the pressure in that specific area. Pressing your fingers down around that area will send you through the roof.

 

[RacerX]

It'll be very tender to the pressure in that specific area. Pressing your fingers down around that area will send you through the roof.

Actually that's one of the tests for appendicitis. Press down on the area above the appendix with your finger. The downward pressure doesn't really hurt but when you release the pressure of the finger its quite painful. Had mine removed about five years ago. They couldn't perform laparoscopic surgery since it was too inflamed so I had the traditional incision method. Because of the type of surgery it took about six or seven weeks to recover.

 

[pdqdl]

Many folks that have a burst appendix spend at least a week in the hospital, usually getting abdominal "lavage". Basically, lots of iv medicine, abdominal treatments where they pump fluids into the abdomen to wash it out, and LOTS of medical bills.

Diagnosis is not always so straight forward: My wife (many years ago) went to the hospital for appendicitis when she was just 18. When she went in, she told them she thought she had appendicitis. After two days of pain and blood work and accusing her of being pregnant, they finally concluded that she was going to die if they didn't decide on the obvious. Up until they did a rough pelvic exam on her, she could prove that she couldn't have gotten pregnant in the normal way. It still gets her mad today to think about that moron doctor.

I'll never run out of horror stories about the medico's...

 

[tree md]

My grandfather had his burst on the operating table while they were prepping him to operate on something else... Talk about good timing.

ANyway, Glad you made it. Hope you get well soon.

I had surgery (different kind of surgery) a couple of months back and was out of work for three weeks. I would at least wait until the pain medication runs out...

 

[ozzy42]

Glad to hear from you ,rather than hear of about you.
Hope you get well soon.

I know from experience,the desire to get back to work vs the ability to do so,can be frustrating.
Don't beat yourself up over it,it's not your fault.

Listen to the Doc. You'll be glad you did.

 

[BC WetCoast]

Many folks that have a burst appendix spend at least a week in the hospital, usually getting abdominal "lavage". Basically, lots of iv medicine, abdominal treatments where they pump fluids into the abdomen to wash it out, and LOTS of medical bills.
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He's Canadian, ZERO hospital bills.

 

[summit583guy]

ya your right I didn't have to pay for jack ####!

 

[pdqdl]

Cool. I wasn't looking at where you were.

That's why the U.S. has a screwed up medical system. None of the doctors work for the government, and they don't want to, either. All the hospitals are in it for a profit.

The services they provide don't come from the government, so they are nothing but a lifeline for all the medical lawsuit attorneys.

On the other hand, that's why we often have the most cutting edge medicine: there is big money in being the first to cure a disease.

 

[ronnyb]

Had mine removed in the end of March, but caught it before it burst. I had the laproscopic surgery. I was in the hospital for 3 days, then did stuff like estimates for a couple of days. About a week after I started doing light stuff, but no tree work, I climbed about 2 weeks after and regretted it. Give yourself about 3 weeks to heal, then start small. The incisions are small, but right in the area your saddle rubs on. Best of luck, heal quick.

 

[TimberMcPherson]

My great grandfather was a surgeon, he took his twin daughters (one is now my 80 plus year old grandmother) into work on a weekend and top n tailed them on the op table and took both of there appendix out "to save any trouble later". He was a hard old prick.

Good luck!

 

[Mikecutstrees]

there is big money in being the first to cure a disease.

Not always. They will never find a cure for cancer. Way too much money in treating it. Quite sad.

Mike

 

[fishercat]

Bs!!!!!!!!!!!!

He's Canadian, ZERO hospital bills.

It comes out of your check in the form of taxes!

Do you really think it's free?

 

[pdqdl]

Not always. They will never find a cure for cancer. Way too much money in treating it. Quite sad.

Mike

There is not any more money to be made by treating a disease poorly than there is in treating well, or curing. On the other hand, many medical treatments are sold just because that is all that they know, or that is what they have heavily invested equipment and training on. Word gets around eventually, though.

There is a cancer treatment hospital somewhere down in Oklahoma that my father-in-law travels to from KC. Why? Good results, the most modern techniques. The local medico's kinda carved him up in the old-school way when they were working on his prostate.

As cancer treatments improve to become cures, people flock to the centers that provide the best, sometimes the only cure. Then they live longer...and need treatment again someday for something else.

There are as many types of cancers as there are cell types in your body. There will never be a shortage of cancers to treat, and there will certainly never be "a cure for cancer". "World peace" is more likely than a single cure for all the different forms of cancer.

Ooops. A bit off topic, eh?