Picture of my appendix

Hey guys,

It's been 5 weeks since I had my appendix removed and I forgot that I never posted a pic of my appendix from surgery.

They also took a pic of my ovary for good measure, so I'll include both on this blog post :)

To me, the appendix looks like a slug with an eye on it!

I still don't know which part is my ovary in this picture... but something looks like it's wrapped in cheese - maybe that's it?

Anyway, I was greatful to my surgeon who took these pics for me - I asked for the actual appendix but she said it had to go straight to pathology. Boooo!

Hope you all aer well :)

Home sweet home

Hey guys,


I appreciate your kind words and support over the past week.

Luckily, the appendix surgery went well on the evening of 6/7. The Anesthesia and Vent did a number on my lungs, so I'm on 2 weeks of zozyn + cipro (it was zozyn+tobra by my ears began to ring so we did the switch-a-roo).

I'm home today to do IV's for another 7 days. I will definitely miss the nurses from the hospital doing my IV's for me at night...but I won't miss the gross food, hospital bugs, and yucky bed. Bleh.

So I'm going to see what I can draw on my belly from all of my scars from the inguinal hernia repair (2000), gallbladder removal (2005) and now appendix removal (2010). Connect the dots... la la la la!

Cheers to going to the ER on a Sunday night when you really don't want to and don't think you really need to.... you never know when the pesky appendix will decide to be cranky!

Oh yes.... that is the aforementioned appendix. The surgeon wouldn't save it for me to see, but promised pics. Here is one :)

Appendix-less

Thank you all so much for your kind words of support, thoughts and prayers... it means so much to me!

I had my surgery last night at around 7:30pm and everything went smoothly, thank goodness!

Just 12 hours later I was up and walking around (laproscopic (sp?) surgery). My belly is still the size of Jupiter but gradually I'm passing more gas and burping.

I have cool pix of my former appendix and the cyst on my ovary that I will post once I break out of jail.

Docs needed to give me abx for the appendicitis (zozyn), so I've dedided to continue that with tobra for 2 weeks just because it's much tougher to clear mucus with my belly looking like I"m 8 months preggo. So I think I"ll be a bit more prone to infection so 2 weeks of abx it is!

Other than that, I'm super loopy on vicodin so I am seriously nodding off while writing this. I hope this post makes sense...if not, let me know and I'll try to (zzzzz) fix it. :)

Take care!

Appendix surgery

I am at the ER and going to get my appendix removed here shortly.

I've had many intestinal blockages so I thought this would be it - but man it hurts a bit more than the run of the mill intestinal blockage I get.

I had some pain this morning at around 3am that woke me up - and after a few hours they discovered my cranky appendix!Please keep me in your thoughts and prayers - it should be a quick, simple surgery but with CF things can sometimes get complicated.

I'll keep you posted on how things go!