First time blogging so things may not go as planned. I am not sure why I decided to start this but I have reached a point in my life where I feel that I need to keep track of what has gone before lest I forget it. As mentioned I am doing an adult nursing degree at LJMU and am currently halfway through my second year. I recently had an appendectomy, which was the first time I had been a patient in a hospital since I was 9 years old. It scared me more now than it did then, growing up we expect a few knocks and scrapes and broken bones ( I think I have broken most of mine) but as an adult when things go wrong we look for reasons and blame everyone and everything we can. My appendectomy will feature heavily in my blogging for a while as I am still in excruciating pain even 10 weeks after. The scars have healed over fine but the actual place where my appendix used to be is agony. I visit the docs tomorrow to find out if this is natural or if there is anything else wrong and if not is there anything I can do to make the pain go away.