Remember all that bragging about hardly ever falling sick or needing to see a doc?

Well all that 'pride' led me to my 'downfall' this Wednesday when i found myself at the Emergency Department (ahem :p) of the friendly neighbourhood hospital, about to be admitted.

Ahem.

Wellll.. The drama started, well somewhere in the middle atleast.. with me heading to the doc for the Third time this year! And its only April! (ok ok.. third probably if you count that time at the end of Dec when i did all my bragging n complaining bcoz it was a Day b4 my Finals!) (n also not count the time i went for my immunisation jabs. which im again due for. dammit.)

But like i said (altho i might wanna stop all the bragging now.. hmm.. haha) i tend not to go for the colds, n the flus maybe if i can handle them. Mostly i only seek treatment for Stomachache n diarrhoea n upchucking n such, that dont stop on their own.

Well so it was again this time. Tho without diarrhoea or vomiting, i suddenly found myself a sufferer of a most mysterious stomachache. This, if i remember correctly, was just after id used the bathroom, so considering my bowels were n felt pretty much empty, i didnt think that it cud be that. So, next guess being hunger, i tried taking a banana. But to no avail. The intensity of the ache increasing, i decided maybe its like gastric or something (because the last 2 times i hand some mysterious stomachache that i cudnt figure out the cause to.. coz they didnt seem like hunger! haha.. it turned out to be gastric.) n tot id have some rice. But the food didnt help either. So it was settled that i probably have to abandon That idea.

In the mean time, i was talking to my dear dear friend (ahem) n told her of how i cudnt Figure out the cause of all my suffering! N being the oh so nice friend that she is.. my dear Elly then proceeded to curse me with a "Maybe its gastroenteritis!!" Oh God Knows who put that in Her head! (The evils of pbl apparently... :p) n so.. whiles putting up the front of the affronted friend, I secretly when in search of this 'gastroenteritis' on reliable ol' Wiki.. (because we All know how wise this woman actually is. ahem.. :p) n Heres what i Found!

"Worldwide, inadequate treatment of gastroenteritis kills 5 to 8 million people per year,"

My oh my what great friends i have... sniff... (haha)
N because our friendship is one of complete honesty (bwahahahhahahahahhahaaaa) i immediately confronted my dear friend (see how many times im inserting endearments here elly? hahaa..) only to have her adamantly reply "Aiyah you! Its not like you live in south africa or something!"

hahahaaaa.. :p

Back to my attempt to diagnose my condition and alleviate my pain, i decided to return to the only other alternative for stomach pain left available (if you rmmbr that i myself wud know if it was gender related.. n it wasnt.. :p hence eliminating That option.) eventho i didnt feel as if there was anything left to evacuate, i still headed upstairs to Attempt to empty my bowels because, hey, what choice did i have left?
N nope, zip, nada, didnt work.
Pfft.

So there i was lying in bed, rolling around in pain, ahem, TRYING for a bright idea to End all the crap.
What oh what cud it be??? A pain that neither food nor toilet helped, nor cud be explained by womens issues. oh the dilemma.
Cud it be appendicitis?????
But no... its a generalised pain all over.. n not localised to the RIF (right iliac fossa, lower right quadrant of your abdomen, where your appendix is, n where pain would usually be localised at in the event of the inflammation of the appendix.)

So, when you're in pain n no where to go, what do you do?!
Next stop, Mummy!!!
Tho my mummy ofcoz cud not remove my pain, but mummies are who you turn to in times of such need.. n mummies are supposed to help make u feel better! (because mummies listen to all your dumb complaints!)
N for me, my mummy is who i depend on to suggest i go see the doc, because i dont do so myself. Hahahaa.

N so after all the whining, i neither refuse nor agree when my mummy suggests going to the doctor, which is my custom, n the way i communicate (i think) my own wish to do so. hahahaa..

So there we are on the way to the doc as i was saying earlier. (n for some reason my family always makes my trips to the doc an excursion for my nephew. haha.)

At the clinic, the doctor was a locum i think, young lady, but quite nice la.
She kept calling me sweetheart n stuff. haha. so i deduced that shes from KL. or Ipoh. hahaha..
First thing, i tell her im having stomachache. N i tot the first questions would be nausea or diarrhoea or that sorta thing. But instead, she asked me, when was my last menstrual period. -_-" (or maybe she asked me if i was pregnant first. can you say sweat? :p) so i gave her my dates, but she was still a lil skeptical.. haha.. n my mum didnt help either. hahahahahahaa..

Anyways, den she starts poking around to see where the pain is right.. n im like yes (pain), yes,
n den she pokes my RIF, n i pullback with a woohhhh noo..
haha.. n den you can see her eyes widen like us kids do when we stumble upon a textbook symptom to diagnose a case. haha.
but im like.. no its not painful, just ticklish.. hahaa.. (denial much? :p)

But she makes me lie down right.
n shes still askin me questions?
She : any nausea?
me : no.
She : hows your urine?
me : *lost* fine?
She : haha fine. Joker la you.
-_-" hahahahhaaa... right.. How am i supposed to know what she means right? ok fine.. i guess i Am kinda supposed to know she might mean colour, abnormality, pain n all that.. but at that point she didnt know that i might know. :p

n then she starts a proper exam.
*Palpate from the area furthers away from the pain (Man i love seeing this med stuff in action man!)
So she starts from, diagonally across, the Left Hypochondrium, and moves downwards, n then up the middle, n down the right to make an S.
*Palpate the area of greatest tenderness last.
Altho i was probably ow-ing for all the lower 6 quadrants. (there are 9)

n while shes palpating shes still asking me questions right..
n she starts asking me something about.. whether my lifestyle is overwhelming.
haha. in retrospect, i think she meant something along the lines of am i sexually active?!
hahahahahaa..

I already know she sorta suspects appendicitis right.
n for appendicitis, we have this special test. Rebound tenderness over McBurneys point (which is at the RIF).
A positive McBurneys is "deep palpation of McBurneys point, tenderness is illicited upon release of pressure."
So she presses down,
me : ow
Releases
me : oww
me : *realisation very quickly sets in* Oh shit. -_-"

She : Haa.. When I press down here, n release and its painful, do you know what that means?
me : *resigned* appendicitis. (actually what i said was probably appendix. but thats what i meant. haha)

She continues with the palpating i think but she starts talking to me bout stuff..
n she starts telling me bout how it cud also be PID (pelvic inflammatory disease) because i do have pain over the suprapubic quadrant n all over actually.
n im like "ohh shit."
at that point i forgot what id learn bout PID. except that it kinda really sucks. but when i eventually got home i finally looked up on it n remembered that its kinda related to STD's. See i told you she was still suspicious of my sexual history. haha..
because my mum was right there n she cudnt ask me straight out. or she cud, but shes obviously smart enough to know if i was id probably lie about it anyways. haha.
n im all like arghhh crap..
She : Pelvic Inflammatory Disease, do you know what that is?
me : *meekly* yea..
She : You read it somewhere?
me : yea.. kinda..
She : Where'd you read it from?
n thats where it comes out what im studying..
heh..

Anyways.. den shes back at her table n shes telling me how i might have Appendicitis, so she has to refer me to a HOSPITAL to get an ultrasound n blood test to see.

Argh!!!!!!!!!!!!

First stage : Denial!
me : *trying to dissuade her, because serious stuff never happens to me!* but doc, when you press down the pain is deep, but when you release, its on the surface!
She : *narrows eyes* Peritonitis is inflammation of the covering of what?
me : *very meekly* peritoneum.

hahahahahahahaaaa...

Hah. n so amidst other talk, my docs like hurry, go go quick quick quick!
n so out we go from the room to await the referral letter n stuff.
n den Still very much in denial, i start telling my mum, maybe its just gastric. :p n i say, but she didnt even ask me about diarrhoea n such stuff..
so my mum makes me go in again to tell her, eventho i also say that she'll still make me go hosp anyways coz McBurneys was positive.

so in i go again,
me : doc, my mum wants me to tell you that i had diarrhoea twice this morning.
doc : Are You Sexually Active?!
(ROFL...)
me : nooo...
doc : Are you Sure??
me : yes...
(hahaha..)
doc : hmm ok. no you still have to go to the hospital, because appendicitis presents that way sometimes right sweetheart.. go go quick quick go!

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