Anyone up? I'm at the hospital with teen ds

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I'm desperately trying to stay awake but I keep nodding off and falling off my chair!
Ds has fallen asleep and is peaceful after being in terrible pain prior to coming to a&e.
He has suspected appendicitis

@Unescorted

Could they not let you have a blanket or 2?

The room we're in is very warm so ds & I had one each of his blankets!

Hospitals are so hot & stifling aren't they. I guess they want to keep patients comfortable, but they are not a pleasant place for the perimenopausal.

I hope things start speeding up for you and you get answers soon x

I hope they get the scan sorted today OP. I have spent quite a while in hospital recently and everything does feel like it moves at a snails pace. I also spent quite a lot of time fasting for procedures to be postponed and cancelled, it's incredibly frustrating.

Oh that sounds tough OP .Please try to keep yourself as well hydrated as you can .

My ds didn't have a scan. They went on blood tests and symptoms. Better out than in and having a scan added time when it could go pop! Hope it's done soon.

Op I can’t because he’s not had the op. Surely it can’t be his appendix as he’s be very ill by now. Hopefully that’s a good sign and he’ll be scanned and you’ll be home soon Fingers crossed. Oh and can you get Wifi? Christmas shop online to fill the time xx

Believe not because

gosh OP so sorry this is taking so long for you to go through the process.

I now realise how lucky DS was to be operated on within 12 hours of getting to the hospital.

@Benjispruce5

Op I can’t because he’s not had the op. Surely it can’t be his appendix as he’s be very ill by now. Hopefully that’s a good sign and he’ll be scanned and you’ll be home soon Fingers crossed. Oh and can you get Wifi? Christmas shop online to fill the time xx

This was my thought? He's not deteriorated at all since we've been here and is sleeping quite peacefully with no recent pain relief.

Does appendicitis always move quickly? I don't know much about it and didn't want to google in case I scare myself!

I can only speak for my DC who had it very young(5) and was I’ll Saturday night, admitted Sunday lunchtime,operation on Monday morning 7am. By that time she was quite poorly and the appendix was sitting in pus. A colleague’s DD had it last week((17) and had op within 24 hrs.

The pain normally gets more severe and constant but morphine would zap that. DD’s heart rate was very high too due to the infection.

Dh had appendicitis, went to work fine in the morning, ate breakfast from Greg's and thought be had indigestion, by about 11am was feeling ill so drove himself home, by mid afternoon was being given morphine by injection in A&E and was put on urgent surgical list operated on overnight about 1am, texted me by 6am to say he was awake and fine. He didn't have a scan. He was in for maybe 3 days after as they couldn't find the right antibiotics. So in his case it was sudden and moved very fast.

How you getting on OP?

He's had a scan and we're waiting to hear the outcome now. It's been about an hour and I've got no concept of how long it might be before someone will talk to us?!

Ds is ok, comfortable and sat up watching stuff on his iPad.
I feel like I've been here for ages now, days pass by very slowly!

Hope you get answers soon

I hope you get the results soon. It's been an awful long time to get to this point.

I hope you get the scan results soon. It's been a long wait, hasn't it. Good that your son has slept. You must be shattered.

Hope you are both ok today

Finally some good news, it was appendicitis, he had his surgery first thing and is doing ok!
Thanks so much to everyone who held my hand and offered support & advice

Glad he's doing ok and I'm sure they'll evict him pdq!

Ah glad it’s done, finally! Hope you get home soon. Sounds like your son has a high pain threshold or the morphine was good stuff.

That must be such a relief. Hope he's home soon x

Glad that he’s sorted

Glad to hear this OP.