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Stephen Colbert announced Monday in a social media post that he has canceled this week’s episodes of “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” after his appendix burst.

Still, he mustered enough good humor to crack a joke for his fans about the reason for the last-minute cancellation.
“I’m sure you’re thinking, ‘Turkey overdose, Steve? Gravy boat capsize?’ Actually, I’m recovering from surgery for a ruptured appendix,” he wrote Monday afternoon.

A burst or ruptured appendix is a potentially life-threatening condition that spreads infection throughout the abdomen, according to the Mayo Clinic. It requires immediate surgery to remove the organ.

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Saint Cloud, Minnesota, where the weather is wonderful even when it isn't.

Been there, done that.

That can be really bad. Had a football player in HS that his to burst and it liked to killed him.

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Damn.
I hope he recovers fully and quickly.
A friend had to get rushed to the hospital for appendicitis, but luckily hers did not rupture before they could remove it.

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Roswell, GA (Atlanta suburb)

Happened to my cousin when we were kids. He got peritonitis but luckily survived.

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My life goes smoothly and in regular intervals

….got appendicitis one Sunday morning…..vomiting, pain…..ambulance took me to hospital…..they did scans and said it didn’t rupture……they put me in for surgery but I guess not a priority since they kept me for almost 2 days in the hospital….the entire time side was hurtin…..they gave no pain killers…..

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I had diverticulitis that went septic. Almost killed me. I still had my appendix at the time, and when they were in there, the decided to take out my appendix, probably as a precaution. I kept wondering why my right side was in pain when everything else was on the left side. That's when the doctor mentioned he took my appendix while he was in there.

…..they did the surgery through belly button which meant faster recovery time….

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Doc took my appendix out while he was in there for other work. I don't recall him asking me before surgery, I just saw it on the final surgery report. Lost my chance to keep it in a jar with my spleen.

A co-worker was complaining of stomach pain and went to hospital, no joy, and was sent home.

Her pain didn't stop so she went back.

That stay was three days.

At some point, possibly finally suspecting appendicitis, they had some reason to open her up, and that when her appendix blew up.

A bunch of us visited her and she told us what happened, saying she told the doctors she's not leaving until they fix her.

We had some fun with that.



I wonder, with some of us being of significantly advanced years, what the odds might be of surviving a burst appendix and potential peritonitis.

When I was young-er a friend in his early '80s, fell, broke his hip, and passed in hospital, of infection.

Even now, it's still tough to understand how this was possible, in modern medicine.

A heart attack, ok.

Embolism, aneurysm, sure.

But infection?

From hip surgery?

No, I'm not thinking medical conspiracy for harvesting.

It just seems like modern medicine should have had a handle on this.

It's a tug of war between the emotional and intellectual comprehension, I guess.

He was a great guy, and that's not how he should have gone out.

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Yikes !
My little brother had an acute appendicitis attack on a family trip in the late 60’s. It burst in the hospital. We spent two extra weeks and grandma and grandpas, learning how to help with the cows on the farm.

….but his Foreward and Table of Contents was ok……?????

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When I was young-er a friend in his early '80s, fell, broke his hip, and passed in hospital, of infection.

Even now, it's still tough to understand how this was possible, in modern medicine.

A heart attack, ok.

Embolism, aneurysm, sure.

But infection?

From hip surgery?

No, I'm not thinking medical conspiracy for harvesting.

It just seems like modern medicine should have had a handle on this.

There are too many drug-resistant bacteria present in hospitals. It is a constant battle to develop new antibiotics while nature is mutating ones that are resistant. The risk of deadly infection is still a significant concern still and will probably be in the future.

As long as we are sharing burst appendix stories: we have a friend who went to his doctor complaining of the symptoms of appendicitis. He was told he did not have it, that it was some kind of virus. As he walked to his car in the parking lot, his appendix burst.

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My story...

On a Wednesday or Thursday I started feeling some abdominal pain. It was a dull pain and wasn't bad when it began. It got worse through Saturday. By Sunday afternoon, although it felt a little better at the time, I went to an urgent care, thinking it was likely a gall bladder problem because it seemed to be centered in the upper right quadrant. I was seen by a young PA. She considered the gall bladder and a couple other possible causes including shingles, but appendicitis was not mentioned. Nothing was concluded from the visit.

Sunday night it got much worse--to the point that I was barely able to sleep. Monday I decided to go to a different urgent care--the one that was across the street from the hospital, figuring that is where I would end up. By this point I knew something was seriously wrong, and my only question was whether I should go directly to the ER or make a stop at the urgent care. While driving to the urgent care I had to pull over for a while because the pain suddenly got so severe I couldn't even drive. (This was probably my appendix rupturing or becoming "perforated.")

The doctor at the urgent care took xrays and surmised that I was probably just constipated. She offered me the choice of sending me home with her "poop recipe" or to go across the street to the ER. I chose the ER because I knew the issue wasn't constipation--and that she was more full of it than me.

At the ER, they did a CT scan. Until the scan was read, I don't remember for sure, but I don't think appendicitis was suspected by the regular ER people either.

I was admitted and laproscopic surgery was performed within a couple hours of my arriving at the ER.

There was a question of whether they could actually perform the surgery, or have to just treat me with tons of antibiotics because this was approximately the first week beginning COVID lockdowns and general paranoia in 2020. But the scans showed my appendix was "perforated" so that kind of forced their hand.

I was in the hospital for four days while they administered IV antibiotics. Their main concern and reason for keeping me so long was my heart rate was really high for a couple days (fighting the infection, I assume).

The bottom line is it took a surgical resident at the hospital to tell me upper right quadrant pain is a classic sign of acute appendicitis. The PA and MD I had already seen were clueless. Not everyone's appendix is in the same orientation so the pain isn't always in the lower right quadrant.