Appendix follow-up post
# Appendix Recovery
## Ruptured Appendix
- Follow up
- lonely/ no interaction with other people
- needed to get back to a sense of normalcy, independence and seeing friends!
- also didn't want to miss _another_ big event - had missed birthday, although Anna came to visit
- returned *easter wednesday*
- saw nurses at Cripps
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Sidenote - [California Girls] is a good song for this bit, as it was playing in the cab on the way to the urgent care centre on the Thursday.
I'd recommend reading the initial part of the writeup in [_2017 in Review: Ruptured Appendix_], which gets you up to speed until early February.
frustration
isolation
slowly getting better
always "maybe just a few weeks more"
definitely massive hit on morale
then was like "fuck it, I'm going back to Notts"
again :heart: to Mary!
February was a month that I didn't see Anna
missed friend's wedding at beginning of March
missed Hack24
- really tough weekend seeing all the fun
- Dave, Anna's brother, attended too - also career switching into Software dev
- would've been nice to be around and helping / introducing
- first year I didn't manage to get a get a ticket in first batch!
- skills waning?
birthday
- Anna came down day early
- so much snow!
- was originally not wanting her to sleep in my bed as I wasn't sure if it'd be ok, but made decision when she arrived that I didn't want to spend any more time away from her!
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- not being able to wash self
- until PICO, removable
Edited by Jamie Tanna