So this is a flashback so I remember the next couple of days.

I woke up this morning after a really bad nights sleep. I could tell that I was running a fever because of the chills and insomnia. I had Sandy get me the thermometer but temperature was normal. My stomach didn’t feel right, I wasn’t hungry or thirsty. I just felt yucky. And the pain was steadily increasing throughout the day localized to the abdomen and there was the pain in the lower right quadrant.

So after laying around all day, not eating and not drinking, I decided if nothing else I should at least try to hydrate and had Sandy get me a bottle of water from the fridge. I cracked it open and downed half of it (8oz) in fairly short order and then hell came to visit. The pain washed over me like a wave and I was driven to my knees. All of a sudden I started sweating profusely and was extremely hot.

And that was it, I had pre-investigated where I could go to an emergency room and Medical City Richland Hills it was. So at 10pm on Wednesday we made our way to the emergency room. My first trip to the ER that wasn’t my fault. No accident, no overdose, just a condition.

Got there and were the first in line and they got me right in. I’m not sure of the timing but it was in short order that they took me for a CT scan and what seemed like just minutes it was read and I was on the schedule for surgery in the AM…