Diverticulitis almost claimed me as a fatality statistic back in January.
It’s no joke but I survived and finally got repaired a few weeks ago.
I have a relative who died from such a rupture.
It happened to my wife 24 days ago. E room, emergency surgery late in the evening, stoma and two 50cent sized holes in the abdomen to mark the end of the staples. Not fun at all.
The kicker is that she had been told by her surgeon last year to schedule an operation. You may know the spiel “you do not want emergency surgery on this, get it done ASAP”.
When she presented it to her primary physician, he said “why would you want to get an operation if you don’t need one”? So she dismissed the recommendation.