She was holding down a full-time job, driving back and forth to her mother's nursing home, in Westchester, and dealing with the pain of two ruptured discs, when her best friend had emergency surgery for a burst appendix and moved in with her for a week to recuperate.
Catling was away on assignment that autumn when she had a burst appendix, and she could think of no one to give the hospital as next of kin except Hugh and Dora Gaitskell.
Once I thought I had a burst appendix, and had to go to the emergency room at the hospital, having neither money nor insurance.
In March of 2014, his constant partying and touring had left him with a burst appendix and gallbladder issues so severe that he had to have his gallbladder removed.
The burst appendix and cancerous prostate had been removed, the faulty arteries bypassed, but there was no cure for Zuckerman's brain.
We make excuses for these friends, everything from their heroic presence during a burst appendix to an offer to carpool year in year and out, to a shared history, and we suffer the consequences.
The kind of insurance a patient has may increase the likelihood of a burst appendix, according to a new study.
He was six when he had an undetected infection and a burst appendix killed him.
In 1986, a year before he died of a burst appendix, Rustin was asked by Joseph Beam, a writer and gay-rights activist, to contribute an essay to a volume on the experience of gay black men.
Roth begins with Everyman's end: this brief novel opens at his funeral, and goes back in time to revisit a hernia operation when he is nine, a burst appendix at thirty-four, cardiac surgery at fifty-six, and an increasingly frequent series of hospitalizations for angioplasties, the installation of heart stents, and a defibrillator.
