{"id":116,"date":"2008-08-23T16:28:01","date_gmt":"2008-08-23T23:28:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/westfamilyblog.com\/?p=116"},"modified":"2008-08-23T16:28:01","modified_gmt":"2008-08-23T23:28:01","slug":"appendectomy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/westfamilyblog.com\/?p=116","title":{"rendered":"Appendectomy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We had a little excitement a few weeks ago.  On the last Saturday night in July I woke-up at 5am with a lot of generalized stomach pain and nausea.  It got worse and worse over the course of the morning and started to localize on my right side.  By afternoon, I was at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pamf.org\/urgentcare\/ \">Urgent Care clinic<\/a>, where they looked me over, suggested I make an appointment with my regular doctor for Monday, and sent me home with some Tylenol.  Within an hour of getting home, Claire, Stu and I headed off to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stanfordhospital.com\/clinicsmedservices\/medicalservices\/emergency\/emergencydepartment\">Stanford emergency room<\/a>, where I proceeded to wait, doubled over in my chair, about 90 minutes before seeing an intern who looked about 15-years old and was not particularly helpful (Stu says he looked so young that he should be texting updates to his Myspace page, not diagnosing me).  After a trip to radiology, though, they figured out I had acute <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Appendicitis\">appendicitis<\/a> and scheduled me for emergency surgery at about 10:30 that night.<\/p>\n<p>In the end, the surgery went fine. They got the appendix out before it burst and were able to do the surgery <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Laparoscopy\">laparoscopically<\/a>.  Our neighbor Mark spent the first half of the night at our house keeping at eye on Claire.  The only hitch was Stu&#8217;s lack of excitement that the <a href=\"http:\/\/med.stanford.edu\/profiles\/surgery\/frdActionServlet?choiceId=facProfile&amp;fid=8513 \">on-call surgeon<\/a> who did the procedure had the bedside manner of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Grey%27s_Anatomy\">Grey&#8217;s Anatomy<\/a>&#8216;s <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Patrick_Dempsey\">Dr. McDreamy<\/a>, and the looks to match.<\/p>\n<p>I came home on Tuesday, spent a week at home recovering, and now three weeks after the surgery am completely recovered with three tiny incisions to show for it, including one inside my belly button!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We had a little excitement a few weeks ago. On the last Saturday night in July I woke-up at 5am with a lot of generalized stomach pain and nausea. It got worse and worse over the course of the morning and started to localize on my right side. By afternoon, I was at the Urgent &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/westfamilyblog.com\/?p=116\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Appendectomy<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[21],"class_list":["post-116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-katherine"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5eQE-1S","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/westfamilyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/westfamilyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/westfamilyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westfamilyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westfamilyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/westfamilyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/westfamilyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westfamilyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westfamilyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}