Originally Posted by
waterrockets
I had my CT scan today. No abscesses. My surgeon says that I'm 9 weeks out from surgery now, and that it's just healing pain. He reminded me again of how much of a mess I was in the OR. In 20 years, he's only sent two patients back for a scan after an appendectomy (including me), and sometimes he has five of them in a day.
Well, I'm just going to take it easy on the bad days, and get some pedaling pain on the other days.
I had an emergency appendectomy 15 months ago. It went well. I was back on the bike in two weeks. But for three months I had intermittent, sometimes severe, pain; to the point that I went back to hospital and they checked whether they'd left some festering fragment behind. They hadn't. After four months I was completely pain-free and my continued cycling appeared to do no harm at all. Just post-operative pain. Disconcerting, though, I sympathise.