Prinzka

Prinzka t1_j25m8zc wrote

Reply to comment by Illustrious-Scar-526 in TIL of Dick Roth, a swimmer who was diagnosed with appendicitis shortly before the men’s 400m individual medley in the 1964 Tokyo Olympic Games. He refused an immediate operation and instead swam in the finals, winning a gold medal. by alexjpg

>Sounds like it hurt but it wasn't full blown appendicitis hurt. I have never experienced it, but I have had people describe it to me so I can't imagine anyone would be able to move much.

That's actually one of the things that made it difficult for the doctors to diagnose me.
They said normally with acute appendicitis people are in so much pay they're literally unable to move.
I traveled for several days even after it burst. So when I just walked in to a doctor's office they didn't think it could be that.

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Prinzka t1_j25bz8i wrote

Reply to comment by Earthguy69 in TIL of Dick Roth, a swimmer who was diagnosed with appendicitis shortly before the men’s 400m individual medley in the 1964 Tokyo Olympic Games. He refused an immediate operation and instead swam in the finals, winning a gold medal. by alexjpg

I know you're trying to argue from a position of authority so that you can go "hah see I've worked in X profession longer!".

I never said that I do this in a hospital.
I have no clue what an ultrasound can show in these cases.

What I'm saying is that after MY appendix perforated they did not know what it was.
All the tests they did included doing an ultrasound and an x-ray.
They didn't tell me what each test would specifically look for.
Just making the point that it's not an automatic cut and dry "oh that's acute appendicitis".
Especially if you've got someone with high pain tolerance.

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Prinzka t1_j248jr0 wrote

Reply to comment by Earthguy69 in TIL of Dick Roth, a swimmer who was diagnosed with appendicitis shortly before the men’s 400m individual medley in the 1964 Tokyo Olympic Games. He refused an immediate operation and instead swam in the finals, winning a gold medal. by alexjpg

My point is that your comment was like "oh you know immediately that it's appendicitis no need to check just start cutting". And that's just not the case.
Both the x-ray and the ultrasound were to find out what the actual problem is.

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Prinzka t1_j246fnk wrote

Reply to comment by Earthguy69 in TIL of Dick Roth, a swimmer who was diagnosed with appendicitis shortly before the men’s 400m individual medley in the 1964 Tokyo Olympic Games. He refused an immediate operation and instead swam in the finals, winning a gold medal. by alexjpg

>In my hospital we wouldn't do an ultrasound,

Really?
For me they did ultrasound and x-ray. And my appendix turned out to already have been perforated.

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