The most painful experience of your life
TLDR WARNING
I contracted Appendicitis about 9 years ago, when I was 14. It began with a tube of M&M's minis. After eating them, I felt like I was constipated and had terrible gas that I couldn't expel, and it continued for 2 days. So my folks take me to my doctor, he says that there shouldn't be anything wrong, take some ex lax and things will be fine.
My parents wanted a second opinion, so they took me to the hospital the same night. Things go from bad to worse in the waiting room. Finally they lay me down in the ER, sweating and moaning. The pain becomes sharp and pronounced, less like gas and more like something stabbing me right through the gut. I'm there under a hot lamp for 2 hours while some dipshit student doctors lay on the guesswork. They don't know what's up. My dad starts arguing with them, he "knows" it's appendicitis. Before they could argue any more, my appendix explodes and the pain is so intense that I pass out. It's like having a grenade go off inside you. I wake up what must have been hours later and I'm still on the bed, they haven't started operating yet. IN fact, they're waiting on a specialist to determine that my appendix did in fact rupture. I'm pumped so full of painkillers than I can barely feel anything, let alone speak. The specialist shows up almost an hour later and they put me under.
I wake up in the OR after the operation, thirstier than I've ever been in my entire life. They tell me it's a side effect of the knockout gas. Bad news is, I can't drink or eat anything for 2 weeks. All they could do was wet my lips with a sponge. It was so frustrating, but before I knew it I was out cold again. I didn't wake up until the early hours of the morning. While asleep the doctors inserted a plastic tube into my nose, meant to vacuum up the poison and gunk that made its way into my stomach from the exploded appendix. I unconsciously tore the tube out in my sleep. Unfortunately for me, I didn't sleep through them attempting to re-insert it. It was truly terrifying, barely knowing what's going on, waking up to 4-5 hands in your face, trying to shove something in your nose and down your throat. I screamed so loud that the floor nurses thought there was a fire or something.
Anyway, the next 2 weeks were miserable. I couldn't eat, I couldn't drink, I was bedridden because of a needle in my cock collecting urine right from my bladder, and I had an incision in my abdomen that would leak like you wouldn't believe. They had to change the dressing twice a day. It hurt to talk due to the tubing in my face. Oh, and the veins in my wrists are notoriously hard to pinpoint, leading to an incident where the sugar water being pumped into my veins was being misdirected into my hand and lower arm, causing it to swell painfully for 2-3 hours before they thought to remove the excess fluids.
It happened like 3 days before Christmas too, where we planned to go to Texas to visit our grandmother who was then thought to be dying of cancer. So in addition to the daily physical pain, I was on the phone with relatives in Texas waiting to hear news about her. More than that though, today all I can remember is the sheer pain that first night, I've never felt any pain remotely close to it since then.
There's a big scar too, and today it's actually hurting quite a bit. I think I told this story here once, I can't remember for sure. Dole, never take your kids to Winthrop is all I can say.