[TN-Bird] update from Melinda Welton

From: "Chris Sloan" <chris.sloan@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 23 May 2005 19:18:13 -0500
I'm posting this on behalf of Melinda Welton.

Chris Sloan

________________________________

Dear all

Thanks for all the well wishes. A few of you have asked about what went
on so, here are some of the details.

Monday morning, May 16th, after two nights of agony, I was operated on
for a ruptured appendix! It all turned out well but a few more hours and
apparently, I wouldn=B9t be writing this email to you!

Here=B9s what happened. (I=B9d want to know if it had been you!) I was =
in
the field on Saturday doing Cerulean surveys in remote Hickman County
and managed to get myself to a hotel in the early evening after I
started to feel nauseas. The only thing I could imagine was that there
was something in the creek water that I had boiled and drank 40 minutes
before the nausea started. Well, I violently vomited all night.
Miraculously, I felt strong enough in the morning to drive myself the
hour and a half home. The cramping started again about an hour into the
drive but I got there. When John got home he took me to the emergency
room =AD for the first time. The doctor at the ER had no idea what was
wrong. I had no fever. They put me on a drip to re-hydrate me and said
that that should help my cramps. Even though it didn=B9t, they sent me
home. (I had no idea that vomiting was a symptom of appendicitis and I
have no idea what information ruled out that possibility for them.)

They sent me home, I slept some and then the relentless pain started at
4am.
John drove his moaning wife back to the ER. This time they did a cat
scan (is that how you spell it?) and found that the appendix had
ruptured. They did emergency surgery and here I am. They let me out of
the hospital on the 19th. I=B9m off heavy pain medication now =AD still =
on
antibiotics - and moving around fine. =20

One good thing =AD besides all the well wishes from my friends - is =
coming
back home with a renewed sense of awe at how beautiful it is around here
=AD and how incredibly lucky I am that I wasn=B9t on a mountain top in
Honduras when this thing started!!!

Maybe next week I can get back to work. I know, I know, don=B9t push it.
I=B9ll be careful but the season is short and I want to do what I can
before the birds leave!


Cheers
And happy to be here!!
Melinda Welton
weltonmj@xxxxxxxxxxxxx

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[TN-Bird] update from Melinda Welton

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