I walked into a non busy hospital and since it hadnt ruptured I was still in the classic pain they can recognize easily. Im assuming you had open not larp with a ruptured one?
Yeah they can't do larp they have to wash out your insides, and in my case they didn't do a good job at all. I went to the ER a few weeks after it happened cause they wouldn't give me any more painkillers and I was still having a lot of pain.
They said you shouldn't be in any more pain so if you are go to the ER (calling my buff?) so I went. The dr. on call shows up and looks at my scan, there is a cantaloupe sized abcess on my liver that he diagnoses as a hematoma which will pass on its own. He tells me to stop laying in bed so much (I was back at work 3 days after my surgery). So I think everything is fine but I feel like total shit, my GP diagnoses my with lyme but does no bloodwork. I'm unsure what he based that on. So I'm on a low dose of antibiotics which keeps me from dying, but I'm not healing.
Finally people are like, dude you should be better. My internal med doctor is like ... maybe we should stick a needle in that 'hematoma' and see what is in it. Surprise, surprise! It's full of strep and its melon sized! So they send me to an infectious disease specialist. I had to get IV antibiotics and a heavy dose of oral for a few months until it shrank and I stopped having fevers daily. The side effects from all those antibiotics were actually worse than being sick.
I had way too much faith in my doctors. I will never make that mistake again.
rook said:
Did the pain change when it ruptured is that why they didnt take it more seriously? Was it less classical (location/point tendorness/etc)?
Pain was terrible, I was unable to focus my eyes after a few hours because I was just too tired from dealing with it and the room started spinning. The doctors were taking their sweet ass time because they thought I hadn't ruptutred: I had only a mild fever, my white blood cell count was normal, and I was able to walk around. When they looked at the film and realized I had been walking around for 4 days with an abdomen full of poop floating around in it (and was likely septic) things moved much quicker and I was in surgery within like 10 minutes tops.
