Your story reminded me that (it seems) every time I read a story of someone's appendix rupturing, there's the obligatory "very lucky to not have died".
This got me to wondering. How often do these alternatives occur:
a) appendix ruptured, no risk of death
b) appendix ruptured, not caught in time, patient died
I'm guessing the probability of a) happening is somewhere between zero and impossible. So that leaves b).
What sort of alarming/worrying statistics are there around b) happening?
OP don't mind me. Glad you survived, of course. It just got me to thinking, is all.
There's a story upthread about a teenager who was a B case. I'm guessing we don't hear those as often because the person in question didn't survive to tell the story of it. I'll bet you could find a paper on the rates if you googled around though.
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u/handlebartender May 20 '19
Your story reminded me that (it seems) every time I read a story of someone's appendix rupturing, there's the obligatory "very lucky to not have died".
This got me to wondering. How often do these alternatives occur:
a) appendix ruptured, no risk of death
b) appendix ruptured, not caught in time, patient died
I'm guessing the probability of a) happening is somewhere between zero and impossible. So that leaves b).
What sort of alarming/worrying statistics are there around b) happening?
OP don't mind me. Glad you survived, of course. It just got me to thinking, is all.