Appendicitis??
Just over a year ago I was hospitalised with extreme pain in my abdomen. It was in the right place for my appendix so I got put on the surgery list and fed liquid morphine for the pain. Note to junkies: It's shit. Doesn't take the edge off the pain, let alone get you high. Tastes like arse, too....
Anyway, three days nil by mouth and I'm still in agony. I go for my appendectomy only for the sawbones to find two massive cysts on both ovaries, one of which has burst, hence the pain. Turns out I've got endometriosis which was bleeding every month into my ovaries and filling them up... Nice eh??
I still have my ovaries, thankfully. I also have, in addition to the appendix scar, a 12" cut from pubis to sternum which they used to clean out the mess that was my reproductive organs. On the plus side, I've now got a coil fitted that means I don't have periods any more, so the diner is open 24/7, 365 a year. No periods, no endometriosis.
The scar is fucking ugly though and would probably put you off.
Swings and roundabouts.
Oh and the anaesthetic left me convinced that the nursing staff were trying to kill me, so one night I pulled out all my canulas so I could escape. Took about two hours to find a suitable vein to get them put back in...
And they fed me chicken that made me projectile vom all over the ward.....
apart from that though, National Insurance done me proud.
( Sallyrsm, Sun 14 Mar 2010, 9:55, 1 reply)

When I had liquid morphine
it sorted me right out.
( TY&GN, Sun 14 Mar 2010, 11:47, closed)