At the end of October Buzz got appendicitis. After three straight days of visiting the doctor (and a trip to the imaging center for an ultrasound in which they couldn't see the appendix) they finally sent him to the hospital so that a surgeon could look at him. His pain was not in the lower right quadrant of his abdomen where the appendix is located. He was hurting just below and a little to the left of his belly button. The surgeon came in and felt his tummy and told us that she could feel a big huge air bubble in there, but that she didn't think it was appendicitis. She said that kids can be weird with appendicitis so she still wanted to get a CT just to rule it out. After she left, I looked at Mufasa and said, how much is this air bubble going to cost us???? We were all thinking it wasn't appendicitis because that's what they kept telling us. After the CT, the nurse came in and told us that is definately was appendicitis and that they were warming up the operating room. In about 30 minutes, they were ready for him. They let Mufasa and I accompany him to the OR waiting and sit with him until they were ready for him. We took a couple pictures with Mufasa's phone of him waiting for surgery. He was not a happy camper. After surgery, the surgeon said that he was lucky because it had not yet ruptured, but that it was close. He came home from the hospital two days before Halloween. The worst part of the entire ordeal was trick-or-treating. He tried to go and only made it to two houses before he was hurting too bad. He was pretty bummed, but Mulan was nice and shared her take of the candy. I am happy to report that after missing two full weeks of school, and losing five pounds he is finally back to his old self. He is making up for all of the lost meals, eating like a horse!!! We are glad he is back!!
