Surgery Scheduled

Met with Dr. Bemer today. He answered all my questions but left me a bit confused with his comments. He was very surprised that the results of the colonoscopy did not show anything impressive. He said that with the results of that colonoscopy he must conclude that all the inflammation was caused by the appendix being infected. However, he also said that he is still not 100% convinced that there is not another problem. He ordered blood work, which I will have drawn at my family Dr.s office tomorrow, to see if the indicators of inflammation are still decreasing. If they are not, there is another test he wants to run.

After a lot of questioning he did say that he can not force me to have an appendectomy, and that I CAN choose to just wait to see if I have another emergent infection. He also pointed out that the chances are 20% that it will become infected again. He thinks that is a high likelihood of recurrence and that is good reason to just go ahead and take care of it. But, if you think about it, that is also 4/5 chance that it will not. I went ahead and scheduled an appendectomy for 8/19 in the outpatient surgery center. Honestly, I am still thinking about cancelling and waiting it out to see what will happen.