A note to one and all. Some of you are aware that I experienced a medical emergency last Sunday. Others are not. The following is intended to inform both groups so if you have heard this before, just ignore it.
While getting ready for church last Sunday morning I suddenly got what I would describe as a stomach ache that got worse and worse as time went on. Howell and I had eaten dinner with a friend Sat. evening at a Chinese restaurant and thought perhaps that I had some food poisoning. After finding that neither of the others were feeling ill and considering the fact that my stomach was hurting more and more, I agreed to go to the emergency room with Howell.
Soon after seeing the Dr. on call I was told that I had a mass of some sort above and to my left side of my belly button. Further, this hospital (remember we live in the country) had no surgeon on call and I needed to go to Tyler (about 100 miles South of here) because this mass was the cause of my pain.
It seems they told Howell and honestly, they may have told me, that they thought the mass was a hernia. In any case I wasn't in Tyler long before I was whisked off to surgery.
Howell has covered my hospital stay pretty well so I will leave that tale to him. Besides, I slept through most of it.
Do be sure to see the blog though and find out how I almost got my gall bladder out while I was there.
