Quote Originally Posted by SantaClawz
I was younger then that, and I recovered very quickly. They took me out of ICU quickly, mainly because I was feeling no pain. Which is probally because the pain I had before was so intense and crippling. I remember I had to literally throw myself off my couch and crawl to the bathroom. I was in the hospital for around a month and a half. Now I have horribly bad acid reflux, oh well, least im still here.
Yeah, if I hadn't had such a bad infection and needed the big second surgical cleanout, I'd have recovered a lot more quickly. You're right. Once you've been through that, it makes every other type of pain pale in comparison.

That's one good thing about mine. Part of what they took out with the second surgery along with sections of my gut was some of the bottom part of my stomach, so I no longer have any trouble with acid reflux at all. But I do have to watch out for food poisoning, and you probably might, too, if you ever got it. Scarred up intestines will stop moving things through and just come to a screeching halt sometimes when they encounter food-borne bacteria. I've had one subsequent trip to the hospital with a paralytic ileus (the paralyzed gut condition), and that's a near-death experience in itself. Glad you survived it, SantaClawz! Glad we both did. I had a colleague whose 22-year-old sister died of a ruptured appendix four years ago. She simply didn't go to the hospital soon enough.