It is day 14 of Ernie's Whole 30.
I over shot you.
He's really not that dead.
Yeah, I'm really not that dead.
So what happened.
So I was like, "ok lot a bloating lot a gas."
This was like day 2 right like right after you -
Yeah
And this whole time you've been texting me like," Is this normal?" It did not sound normal.
No it did not sound normal
I’m doubling down in pain like you don't think
"Oh it must be my appendix." Because clearly I'm eating differently.
So Sunday morning I start getting these... It's clear. I haven't slept. I'm crazy feverish.
That I need to go to like an ER or something. I was diagnosed that night with appendicitis
with emergency surgery later that night. Surgery started around maybe at 11:45 pm.
I later learned that it is not just appendicitis but my appendix had burst and its ah gangrenous - what was the word?
Gangrenous and necrotic
Gangrenous and necrotic. Which those just sound like terrible fucking adjectives anyway.
Yea I could have developed septic shock and that is fatal.
So yay for that. Yay I’m not dead.
Still here I am chilling inside a...
And the NG tube is pretty -
The NG tube basically helped me - So Day 1 to 3 at the hospital stay they give me
like a clear diet but then by say the 4th day um I would start vomiting I think we
made the call to just put a tube from my nose down my throat all the way down to my stomach.
Get all that crap and that gas and just suck it all though into a
Pile of literal bile that's sitting behind me.
The tube sucks to have in but have you been feeling better since you got the tube?
Yeah
The infectious component is coming down. What happens when you have an infection like
this is that your bowel become a little bit dilated, edematous and that's why you develop the
obstruction so you have to wait another day or two to let the edema release itself. That's
what happens in the bowel when the bowel becomes infected it becomes edematous it swells with
fluid and because it becomes edematous the wound then goes from this size to this size just because
of the edema. It's like blowing up a balloon and that's why you developed the obstruction.
So we just have to wait for that edema to naturally resolve itself, which it will.
And that's it.
That makes it sound way too simple for me. Thank you sir, much appreciated.
And now the swelling just needs to go down. That's basically what it is. Once the swelling goes
down it'll be back to normal.
Is this to scale?
It is.
Now I know this was very unfortunate timing but it
doesn't seem like Whole 30 caused your appendix to burst.
No Whole 30 did not cause my appendix to burst. You know the crazy thing is? Even when I was
still writhing through that pain I was like, "I’m gonna still try to be good about that Whole 30."
Thanks for the company, I always appreciate it.
I'll post the update for the world.
Feel better Ernie.
There he is...
I came here to finish the job.
Murderer!
There was a point where I was like, "I blame you."