Good move; I’ve purchased it myself when on a long trip in the event of a tour cancelation.
I wonder about her length of stay — she has been in the hospital for over two weeks and maybe still in intensive care. Complications (she is 68)?
Arlene Meeks, 68, was holidaying in Indio, Calif., with her husband Wilf, 77, when she fell ill. At first she thought it was a flu bug, but after two visits to hospital for antibiotics and X-rays, she was told her appendix had ruptured.
That wasn’t all. The problem had been left for so long that her gallbladder became infected and gangrenous, and had to be removed, her daughter Kim Meeks said.
Since her surgery at Indio, near Palm Springs, on Dec. 17, she has been hooked up to ventilators, intravenous lines and a catheter.
— So, yes, complications.
A ruptured appendix can be a deadly thing. All the infection from the appendix is spread throughout the abdominal cavity.