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You know, I actually feel better. Went to the doctors yesterday and I am doing pretty good they say. A quick tip to all of you after the Mats News.
Just got this email and text from two sources in different hemispheres within 3 minutes of one another...
#1 THE EMAIL FROM SWEDEN.
"I am told with certainty that Mats Sundin news is upon us. It is done. Mats is returning. Rangers, Canucks, and Habs are aware of what it will take. But in honesty, Mats will decide based on the best chance to win a Cup in his head. NOT MONEY."
#2 THE TEXT MESSAGE FROM TORONTO
"Look out NHL, Mats is coming back. Either the Rangers or Canucks. It will come out of nowhere."
Now just so that you all know, both of these sources are in my list of sources that are extremely connected to happenings around the NHL and the European Leagues. Neither is connected to any of those teams. Well one WAS connected to one of them, but hasn't been now for almost a decade...
I will stay on it.
Please read below..
It was never my intention to share just how bad this whole "appendix breaking/emergency surgery" trauma was, but in talking to my wife tonight she convinced me that I should in the odd chance one of you runs into an appendix issue and aren't sure if you should go to the hospital...had I not gone, I would NOT be here.
Were it not for my GP doing this basic little test below, who knows...if this little "tell" I learned helps one of you one day or one of your kids it will all be worth it.
In the past whenever I would get a pain in my side I would not worry if it was my left side since we are taught the appendix is on the right. Which it is 99% of the time.
Here is the tell. The rebound pain. If you have lower abdominal pain and you push on it and it hurts that could be bad. However, if you push on it and it hurts and you hold it there, and upon releasing your fingers the "rebound pain" is even worse GO TO THE HOSPITAL. If it hurts when you release the pressure on your stomach your appendix has either burst or is on its last legs.
Just thought I should share that to all you to remember for yourselves or loved ones.
Having your appendix removed usually means one night in the hospital if you get it early.
I was in the hospital for almost a week.
The reason my situation became so dire was because my appendix was oddly positioned away from some of the pain sensors that protect us. That is a VERY rare thing (woohoo I should play the numbers!)
Had my appendix been in the normal spot I would have felt it going bad a month ago and it would have been routine. Instead, what happened to me is my body was fighting infection like crazy for a month and I was exhausted thinking I just had a perpetual cold. Not feeling any belly pain while my white blood cells were on overdrive. It felt like I had mono.
By the time I felt the typical appendix pain it was almost too late. My appendix was blown and garbage and my insides were infected EVERYWHERE when they opened me. That is why my recovery sucks and I am on MEGA anti-biotics. The doctors told me they were shocked at how much crap they pulled out of me.
I didn't want to get into just how lucky I was, but if the experience can be used to help one of you down the line...Well there you have it. It was close.
Onto happier things...
My little boy is three and is pretty much exactly the same age I was when the Flyers won their last Stanley Cup. My son is around hockey 24/7. Teams sent him stuff, he sees all these players and teams and people sending me stuff to wich me a speedy recovery, and before I had this surgery we would play hockey almost every day.
Ask him his favorite sport and he says, "Baseball."
I was happy to be there to watch the Phillies win it all and I am quite sure he is now destined for the same fate that Bobby Clarke and Bernie Parent bestowed on me as a child. You get a taste, no matter how young, and that taste lingers..
I don't watch baseball. I "get" baseball, but once you have seen a sport like hockey....I mean really...baseball?
more to come
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