TIFU/ This is my first time posting a story and English is not my first language so bear with me.
This wasn’t exactly today, but a few days ago. So lately I had issues with my appetite, I would start eating and after a few bites I would feel a little bit nauseous, I didn’t paid attention because I just changed a few things on my diet and I brushed it off thinking I just didn’t like it. Thursday morning and I feel pain in my stomach, I think “great I’m going to get stomach flu or some similar bullshit”, I immediately feel the vomit coming, so I run to the bathroom I just throw up once but I also have to go to the bathroom , (nothing I can’t control, it was just like not pleasant but manageable to work) but at this point is 4 am and I’m just exhausted, so I decide that I’m just gonna call sick, go back to bed and around 9 I’m just gonna go to the doctor for some meds and a doctors note for work.
Once I’m there I tell the doctor my symptoms, he touches my stomach, makes some movements with my legs and asks me where the pain is located.
“On the left side” I said while he pushes too hard. “I can’t let you go, this could be many things but I’m mostly concerned it can be your appendix, so we will have to send you to the ER so they can run tests”.
I was so annoyed and so sure he was wrong, I mean I’ve heard stories about it and I know the pain is unbearable, and I’m just with a tummy ache.
I just sighed and went to the ER, told them what happen and they immediately put an IV, took tubes of my blood and let me sit by myself for hours without any other word.
I was texting my husband and my mom how stupid everything was and how it was waste of my time, that I was gonna have a really bad stomach infection and they were gonna send me home after all that.
They started giving me pain medicine and didn’t let me eat or drink anything for two days because “it would interfere with the labs”.
I was upset, tired cause they wouldn’t let me sleep, I was in pain more from the IV than my stomach, and I missed my husband, everything seemed so stupid, I could’ve just not be lazy and work and I would be fine at home.
After hours finally a surgeon saw me, read the results to me and lo and behold I have Appendicitis and I have to go to surgery immediately.
I had to call my husband and my mom, tell them to come immediately and to be prepared.
I ended up waking up mid surgery and it was the most bizarre experience ever, because I could feel them pulling and doing stuff but it didn’t hurt.
At the end I stayed for three days while the nurses and my husband (bless his soul) took care of me, and now because I wanted a day off from work I have a whole month in recovery at my house.
TL;DR. I missed work because I was lazy thinking I was gonna get just meds and ended up with my appendix removed.
TIFU by missing work and ending up in surgery
r/tifu
Comments
OP I am so glad you chose to get checked out. The actual fuck up would be putting work first, not paying attention to your symptoms, your appendix bursting, and you writing this story as a ghost.
On the bright side, you no longer have to worry about your appendix bursting!
How is this a fuck up? You sought medical help when you needed it. You had to have surgery. The hospital is exactly where you should have been, not at work.