ap·pen·dix (ə pen′diks) : a totally useless bodypart that can cause enormous amounts of pain

So Friday August 13th was a very unlucky day for Zack.  Poor guy.  He woke up around 3am with a horrible stomach ache and the day just got worse and worse.  A short rundown....

12am: went to see meteor showers, felt fine
1am: went to bed
3am: woke up with sharp pains in stomach right side Z is pretty sure it's his appendix, but commence puking, feel a small amount better so try to go back to bed
7am: pain unbearable... finally decide to go to urgent care
8am-12pm:  Urgent care, x-rays, bloodwork, painful pain med shot.... all the could tell us was "it's probably y our appendix, you should go to the ER"
12:30-4:00pm:  ER at Yuma Regional Medical Center... all the tests done again plus a CT scan
4:30pm: We find out it IS his appendix and they are scheduling his surgery.
5:30pm: Pre-op
6:00-7:15pm: Into Surgery - Zack's appendix removed laparoscopically

To say the least it was a crazy day.  Poor Zack was in a lot lot lot of pain.  And I know because I had mine out in 2003 when we were dating.  It was super hard for me to see him in so much pain because I've never seen him like that before.  Zack really has a high tolerance for pain so this was very new.  I felt so bad for him!  The good news is they caught it before it ruptured and they did the surgery laparoscopically so he had a super fast recovery.  I have to say I've never seen someone recover so fast from surgery.... he was up walking around in the early morning hours and then home around lunchtime.  It was hard for him to go easy on himself.  In fact when the nurse was telling him the dr orders to stay out of work for a week, Zack was like "but I can do light duty though right?".  Eventually we ganged up on him and told him to just take the week off and take it easy.  We did have a nice week and half spending time together as a family, holed up in the house mostly hanging out. It was hard for both Kale and I when we had to send Zack back to work.  But not enough to want it to happen again!  Good thing there's only 1 appendix - and now neither of us have to go through that horrible experience again!

Here's a pic of Zack and Kale snuggling on the couch as he's recovering.