Just imagine one fine morning you feel some pain in your stomach and you are suggested to see a doctor. Like every morning in light mood you drop your children to their schools and then you move to city hospital, park your car in the parking and after taking the admission slip you wait for your turn. When your turn comes you under go various tests and suddenly the situation turns into emergency and you were diagnosed with some thing serious and you were immediately admitted. Your relative with pity faces flock around you.

Same happened with my maternal uncle, last two nights with him as his attendant made me think and write all this. The environment of hospital had always been scary but as soon it became normal I was able to click pictures to document all this.

Though the issue is curable and not that serious but who knows which way the life takes. He is diagnosed with appendicitis.

Appendicitis typically begins with a vague pain in the middle of the abdomen often near the navel. The pain slowly moves to the right lower abdomen. It is accompanied with nausea, vomiting, lack of appetite, and fever. All of these symptoms, however, occur in fewer than half of people who develop appendicitis. More commonly, people with appendicitis have any combination of these symptoms.

This problem is an interesting concept from a Darwinian perspective of vestigial body parts (diminished tail of humans). Theorists indicate that the appendix is product of genetics and evolution. The appendicitis causes inflammation of the appendix, which is a tube-like glandular structure that connects to the first part of the large intestine, located at the lower right portion of the abdomen. Once the inflammation begins, there is no effective therapy or method for the healing of the appendix. It is then considered a emergency once inflamed. Appendicitis is now considered a common problem and medical procedure. It commonly occurs between the ages of 10 and 30, posing risk to nearly anybody.

Symptoms of appendicitis may take 4-48 hours to develop. During this time, someone developing appendicitis may have varying degrees of loss of appetite, vomiting, and abdominal pain, it may accompany constipation, diarrhea.

Early symptoms are often hard to separate from other conditions including gastroenteritis (an inflammation of the stomach and intestines). Many people admitted to the hospital for suspected appendicitis leave the hospital with a diagnosis of gastroenteritis; true appendicitis is often mis-diagnosed as gastroenteritis initially. Children and the elderly often have fewer symptoms, which makes their diagnosis less obvious and the incidence of complications more frequent.

Currently his appendix lump has been subsided by antibiotics and soon it will be operated. Every thing is well that ends well.

Mood: Tired