The Craziness Of It All – Liz’s Story

In July 2013, I was down in London for a friend’s big birthday and had a wonderful weekend staying with relatives. We arrived home happy and tired on the Sunday night. At 3am I was awoken by a pain in my stomach. At first I thought maybe it was food poisoning, or a stomach bug but the pain increased and I ended up crying out for help. I got back to the bedroom and asked my husband to call an ambulance thinking that so much pain may be a burst appendix, or that my umbilical hernia had got blocked, or something. I was 49 and had been through 6 years and 10 tries of IVF. We had eventually ended up being successful at having a baby. Our daughter was at this time only 6. The ambulance crew arrived and were also concerned about appendicitis as the pain seemed to be in my stomach, but having gone through IVF, I said I thought it was coming from my ovaries. I’d had a bad case of Ovarian Hyperstimulation Syndrome (OHSS) during the 6 years and this pain seemed vaguely familiar, only far more intense. I was rushed to A & E with blue lights and dosed with the maximum amount of morphine. Once I arrived, I was monitored and then left alone for a while. When they returned they said it wasn’t my appendix but they weren’t sure what it could be. Next they thought Diverticulosis, then I was put on a bowel ward. I had a CT scan 3 days later (which was the best they could do, as some people had been in hospital all week and were still waiting for their CT scans.) It showed a blocked b...
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