Reply #7: Had appendicitis last April that turned out to be a lucky break

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Hurt like hell, wife insisted it was just gas, finally convinced her to take me to the emergency room. Ruled out everything else, took out the appendix, all went well and was home the next day.

But when I when back to the doctor for a follow-up, he told me they found cancer on the appendix. Hadn't spread from anywhere else, nor spread to anywhere else, and he was certain he got it all. Said that if I hadn't had appendicitis when I did, we would have never discovered the cancer until it was too late.

(And my wife no longer makes fun of me whenever I do have gas!)