Appendixes and Vacations Without Paid Sick Leave.
I had an Appendectomy on Wednesday at 3AM. I came home on Thursday at 1PM.
I have a scar on my stomach the size of my thumb. It hurts.
Otherwise I guess I’m fine. As fine as you can be after being sliced up in ways you didn’t want to be. I mean, they just informed me that I’m having surgery sometime during the night. In case my appendix is infected. In case. Try to sleep after that. I thought I was going to die.
Well, it was infected, so no harm done. I wasn’t cut up for no reason at all. But I ain’t a happy camper anyway. I haven’t worked long enough to get paid sick leave, so I’m losing many, many euros during my two week vacation. I was supposed to be working the whole Mid Summer, and get extra payment for work on a bank holiday. Many euros, lost – like that!
Am thinking if I’d use my last pay check to travel to the south or somewhere. It’s cheaper if you pick a “left over” vacation from the travel agencies. So I might be able to afford it. This is, of course, just brain storming, nothing is saying that actually am going to travel. Should save my money for England. But I’m desperately needing sun, my skin is white as chalk.
So, Pal is telling me to start walking so my stomach won’t build the wrong kind of scar tissue. She informed me that the three separate scars I have are going to grow into one (not good) if I don’t start moving around a bit. Maybe I should. Am having nightmares where I get a hole in my stomach when my scar starts to grow inwards. Also dreamt that I took a swim and panicked afterwards that I’m not allowed to swim as long as I have the stitches still left.
Now Pal is begging me to bring ice cream, how rude, considering that I’m the crippled one. Forget her referring to my inwards-grown-scar and other nightmares, I call it blackmailing.
June 25th, 2005 at 19:56
Well…yipes! :O Glad you’re okay. But scars are cool, now you can show it to people and say you were in a fight…
June 26th, 2005 at 04:24
Blah, am not sure it will be very sexy, though. If it were, I’d consider showing it off, buuuuuut … Must think it over. Might come up with a better explanation than “Er, I had my appendix removed, like. Yeah.”
July 6th, 2005 at 11:41
Oh dear, hope you´re feeling all well again. Health is more important than piles of work, hope your boss respected that.
July 7th, 2005 at 13:27
I’m feeling a lot better, thanks. And it’s me who’s mostly sad for not being able to work for two weeks, my boss is thankfully very nice.