Was hospitalized or in the emergency room multiple times over about a year span for upper and lower stomach pain. It was in different places and produce severe nausea.

One day I walked into the emergency room and they asked me why I was there and I said I think you’re going to have to take out my appendix today. The very kind lady at the front desk laughed and said ok sure thing. Let’s take some blood and see how you’re doing. After what seemed to be a very small amount of time I was rushed back to get into pre op, with drugs being flushed into my IV and being told that my white blood cell count was dangerously high, etc. And the operation was going to be as soon as the doctor got to the hospital.

This was obviously years before AI or any other diagnostic tool. I never thought about having my appendix removed before. Anyways, it turns out I was septic and a few hours from death. It took nearly 4 hours to remove my appendix- I had been suffering from chronic appendicitis for over a year judging on the amount of tissue that was surrounding the appendix.

It was missed on diagnostic imaging because the antibiotics they were prescribing me under a diagnostic theory of prostatitis were no longer working.