I also had a ruptured appendix. I just thought I had the flu since all my kids had just experienced the flu. When I stopped at the doctor’s office after dropping off two children and with two others in tow, the doctor said — “You are going to the hospital.” I nearly jumped off the table when he touched my abdomen in a certain place. But of course, the denial in me said, “I can’t, I’ve got kids with me.”
He responded, “We’ll call your husband for the kids, the ambulance is here for you.”
I spent more than two weeks with this dilemma. My church leaders came and prayed for me. I held out until I was green. Thank GOD I bailed hay as a kid.