⚠️ TW - Surgery ⚠️

It has been a couple of weeks since we got back and today I was going to a charity event, Chris was away in Boston and I couldn't go with him due to work commitments. I spent the whole day at the Woman's shelter volunteering within the soup kitchen and talking with the residents. The cramping from a couple of weeks ago returned again this morning but painkillers weren't helping the pain this time, I tell my manager Gill that I wasn't feeling good and she suggested leaving early. Sitting in the car on the way home I begin to stuggle with the intense pain in my lower tummy, I try calling Chris but it goes to voicemail. Gill decided to take me to the hospital because she couldn't leave me alone at home, we get taken straight into our own booth and i'm doubled over holding my tummy with tears streaming down my face, I cry in pain whilst sucking on the gas and air the nurse had given me. Gill tries calling Chris again from my phone and he answers this time.

"Hey sorry babe we were outside setting up the barbecue" he says, Gill explains the situation and once off the phone she informs me Chris is doing everything he can to get home to me. The pain keeps getting worse and worse and now I'm starting to feel sick and dizzy, I try keeping calm but panic sets in and everything goes black as I feel the gas and air fall out of my hand.

My eyes flicker open and the bright lights burn my eyes, I look around the room and i'm met with Chris who's head is on the bed next to me where our hands are locked together. His eyes are shut and I lift my thumb to stroke his, his eyes fly open and he jumps out of his seat.

"Baby! Are you ok?" He asks cupping my face and kissing my head. I nod back slowly in response. "What happened?" I ask looking down at my arm with an IV in it and a blood pressure monitor on my upper arm. "Your appendix burst, the doctor performed key hole surgery and I should be able to take you home in the next couple of days".

Later that night Chris helps me into the shower, the pain is still bad but not half as bad as it was before the operation. He helped me get washed and scrubbed my hair clean before wrapping me in towels and carefully helping me back to the bed where the nurse would put on a new dressing and i'd see the tiny hole from where the instruments were inserted. I'd never had surgery before and felt sick and faint after my shower or maybe because i'd seen the stitch covered in blood. Tonight was especially hard when Chris went home, I think I was just emotional after the day i've had and completely exhausted. Speaking with the nurse she said I could possibly go home tomorrow, I try to get into a comfortable position which was so difficult but I manage to fall asleep after taking my pain medication.