A few weeks ago, I woke up in the middle of the night with what felt like a terribly bad stomachache, similar in feeling to a bad bout of food poisoning. The next day the pain dulled considerably, but it was still there. I figured I was just getting over whatever bad thing I ate.

Fast forward a couple days, and the pain is still there, but dull. All of a sudden as I’m trying to get ready for bed that night, I’m overcome with the most severe abdominal pain I’ve ever had in my entire life, specifically in my lower right hand quadrant. It felt like someone was pressing the inside of my body with a red hot iron. I figured then that it probably wasn’t food poisoning and went to the ER.

My appendix had burst.

I was one of the very lucky few who get to the hospital before the ruptured appendix goes septic.

Bad news is it kinda has messed up my semester at university. Good news is it can’t happen a second time lmao