What an adventurous summer vacation Hannah has had! It started the first day of summer vacation when she was attacked and trampled by a cow moose (Part 1). Mid-summer she made a trip with me to the Jersey coast (Part 2) and Washington, D.C. (Part 3). Part 4 began this past Thursday morning when Hannah complained of abdominal pains and she stayed home from camp at the Campbell Creek Science Center. Pain pills worked somewhat through the day. Actually, Marian and I thought that Hannah may be experiencing her first menstrual cramps. I took off to a late movie (Terminator: Salvation I give it 3 stars) thinking things were under control...not! As soon as I got out of the movie I received a call from Marian that she and Hannah were at the Providence Hospital emergency room. They were advised to go there immediately after going first to our local Doc-in-the box. After arriving there at 9:30 pm, the tests began...blood work, poking here and there, CT Scan, etc. Yep, it's appendicitis and at 3 am she went into surgery. The laparoscopic surgery was over at 5 am and we accompanied her to her room. It was amazing how strong Hannah was through this entire ordeal. Her weakest moments 
were related to her fear that she would not wake up from the general anesthesia...she was pretty scared about this and it actually made me have flashbacks to my fears of not waking up from the pain/sleep medicine that was administered to me during my heart surgery hospital stay. The entire Providence staff was very supportive and treated Hannah tenderly. We had been given the impression that Hannah would come home on Saturday but that didn't happen. Dr. Jolly (yes that is his real name) wanted Hannah to be more pain-free and digestively active before being discharged...that happened today, hooray! Hannah has 1 1/2 weeks before school starts and should back to Hurricane Hannah strength 
before then.Thanks so much for all the supporting calls and visits from our family friends...it was much appreciated.
She is now home resting comfortably and has us under her thumb for a few days living the good life.
2 comments:
So glad to see Hannah out of the hospital and reading at home on the couch. The whole ordeal must have given all of you a scare. At least its a once in a lifetime issue that will never happen again. Give Hannah our best.
It's a tough one to see your child (or any child) in pain, and you are correct, she won't have to fear appendicitis again. Lots of life-lessons experienced this year for Hannah. Marian and I staying up for 30 hours taught us lessons also...it's hard to rebound from that. It wasn't until Sunday that I had enough energy to run my 13-miler. I'll pass on your well wishes to Hannah.
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