To Be Appendicitis or Not to Be

So this is going to be a mini rant. But imma share my experience. I was hospitalized in my last blog post due to extreme lower right abdominal pain. My blood pressure was through the roof and I couldn’t sit, stand, and I could barely breathe. They gave me some drugs, but they couldn’t find my veins, luckily the nurse was cute, but him and the doctor stuck me 9 times before finally giving me the meds. I used to say that I like getting shot, but I’ve been traumatized. I don’t mind the smaller gauged ones, but they had to use a big gauge since they were putting contrast through it. Each poke hurt, and they would slide it around under my skin. I ended up looking like a drug addict with all the bruises and wholes in my arm. But due to the classic symptom of lower right abdominal pain, they kept testing me for appendicitis. They made me do 2 CT scans and an MRI scan. Both of which we very painful (iodine makes you feel like you’re burning from the inside and follows with extreme nauseous and constipation, keep the latter in mind). The MRI was so loud, and I had to lay still for an 1.5 hours. My back got so sore and the headphones they gave me only one side worked, and I could hear a majority of the noise. And like I’m not claustrophobic, but not being able to move for so long and being in a small space made me feel like a caged animal. I started mentally breaking down, high key with my 1.5 hour of confinement I now understand why animals go crazy and attack. Anyway, once I was done, I could barely sit because I laid on my tailbone the whole time. In addition, I was allowed to eat from Friday night until Monday afternoon. They kept my electrolytes and blood sugar up with IVs, it felt like cruel and unusual punishment. Then they saw in my MRI that I was "constipated," and that’s what they’re gonna diagnosis me with. I was so frustrated because the week before I had an inflamed appendix, a UTI, and swollen lymph nodes along my hip bone. Constipation doesn’t cause that, and remember I had two consecutive CT scans with contrast (iodine). So that woke me up every hour through Sunday night to Monday night to giving me laxatives. I never really truly fell asleep, and I was getting grumpy. They released me on Monday since the pain wasn’t back, but I told them that it only happens when I eat, so of course I didn’t have any recurrent pain, duhhhhh. Then last Tuesday I got a some more tests done, and they discovered I still had a UTI due to antibiotic resistant bacteria, it was E. Coli and the Urologist suggested that I don’t use the bidet at my house since I don’t know the source of the water. In addition, I have Salmonella (and I believe Tuberculosis) somewhere in my gut. And the urologist was like everyone was being extra because they kept trying to make sure that I didn’t have appendicitis, knowing full well after like 1 day without treatment of acute appendicitis I would be dead. He believes that I had an untreated UTI for so long that I caused my lymph nodes to swell along my urinary tract and that was brushing up against my appendix, causing my appendix to get irritated and inflamed. So now because the UTI was left untreated, and I have Salmonella I have to go to Thailand and see a GI specialist along with an Infectious Disease specialist. I really think that if the doctors treated me for my symptoms instead of trying to fit my symptoms to a diagnosis, I wouldn’t be doing all of this. I’m going on week 3 of being in and out of the hospital. I just want to be back to my town and eat good food and watch boxing with my host mom. And most importantly, teach! I feel so purposeless out here, and I’m going broke eating out twice a day on $170/month budget T_T….and because I’ve been out of my town for so long I don’t think they’ll approve me traveling during the break which isn’t bad, but I would’ve liked to make that choice, you know. Like I’m obviously trying to be positive and appreciate everyone checking-in on me these past couple of weeks, but I hate to make people worry about me. Especially for something that shouldn’t’ve become as serious as it did. But thanks for reading through my little rant lol, I'm in Bangkok now and that should be fun, and "Until next week America!"