Timely list! ;)

I'll see what I can find.

Thanks XD

Some more!

Ash Child
First Sight
Chain Letter
Any Sunday
A Silver Lining
The Pink Dress
Emergency Echo
Maigret's Holiday
No More Meadows
Notorious Nineteen
Joey and Co. in Tirol
Here's to You, Zeb Pike
Maidlin Bears the Torch
In Stitches with Ms Wiz
Summer Term at Melling
Sue Barton, Student Nurse
First Term at Malory Towers
All-of-a-Kind Family Uptown
Bride Leads the Chalet School
Challenge for the Chalet School
The Operation That Happened to Rupert Piper

Thanks, Rainbowheart :)

No problem!

Hope everything goes well tomorrow (it will probably be today by the time you see this).

Thanks! :) All done. There was a power failure in the hospital (! Seems risky!), so everything was delayed an hour. Luckily, I was armed with a book..! :D Amazing how delays matter less when you have something good to read. ;)

Much better than staring at the wall, or at your phone!

Glad to hear it's over. Best wishes for a good result.

Thanks! Another appointment Thursday, and then we book surgery (or not). :) I'll let you know if I'll be away from the computer for a stretch!

Fingers crossed no surgery is needed. I always thought appendicitis meant immediate emergency surgery, but apparently it's not like in the olden days. Antibiotics can sometimes work!

No, you are right - acute appendicitis is almost invariably treated by appendectomy (plus antibiotics).

It is recently approved practice (in Switzerland) to treat instead with antibiotics (for those wishing to avoid surgery, with informed consent!), and then to monitor (if it cures the infection, then surgery avoided). But this comes with some risk, because if the appendix ruptures in the meantime, well, peritonitis is life-threatening... :(

I suspect that because I didn't have systemic infection last time this happened (in Canada), and my CT didn't show much swelling, I was allowed to try the "antibiotics first" method. Which did the trick, in my case.

But because it's back, there's now the chance that I'm one of those very rare people who get chronic appendicitis. I hadn't heard much about this, but, yeah, apparently some people get chronically inflamed appendices. And they get surgery, typically, because it's either that or long-term antibiotic abuse...

So we'll see! It's an interesting conundrum, medically speaking! Surgery is always to be avoided, but then if you have a chronically inflamed appendix, maybe it's safer to get it out... :)

Ah, that makes sense! Probably better to get it taken out if it's a repeated occurrence, although surgery is no fun. :(

The thing is, with me, I'm not sick enough or in enough pain to go straight to the ER. I just have constant pain in a very, very specific spot. At first I went to my gynaecologist here (thought maybe I had an ovarian cyst), and he checked everything, said there was nothing wrong, then did the classic "I'll resist the movement, you move your knee to your chest" test and "$*%#!" "Yep, appendix - better call your GP today, or go into the hospital if the pain suddenly gets intense or moves from that spot".

So here we are. As last time, "Appendicitis?! You need surgery, now!" and then, "Wait, your fever is mild / you have no fever", "Your leukocyte count is low... you don't have systemic infection...."... and then they start into the differential diagnoses, rule those out, and are left with, "Yes appendix. No emergency. WTF."

It's funny. Deja vu. Same thing happened a decade or so ago, and I kept it. We'll see if it's different this time. I'm guessing surgery is likely in the end, since it's recurrent.

Rainbowheart wrote: "Ah, that makes sense! Probably better to get it taken out if it's a repeated occurrence, although surgery is no fun. :("

Sorry, was still typing and didn't see this. ;)

Exactly. Yeay. :p

;)