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    Angela's Angry Appendix
    Angela's Angry Appendix
    Angela's Angry Appendix
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    Angela's Angry Appendix

    By Stephen Christensen, MD

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    A girl’s 10th birthday should be a special occasion, and Angela had been planning hers for weeks. Cake, ice cream, pizza, video games and a sleepover with her friends were all on the agenda, and the invitations had already been sent. Unfortunately, Angie’s appendix – an organ no larger than her little finger – was about to rebel, and her birthday plans were in serious jeopardy. Despite her growing physical discomfort, as Angie made her way from one doctor to the next there was one thought uppermost in her mind: would she would be home in time for her party?

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherStephen Christensen, MD
    Release dateNov 28, 2012
    ISBN9780984399048
    Angela's Angry Appendix
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    Stephen Christensen, MD

    Dr. Stephen Christensen (“Doom” to his closest friends) was trained at the University of Utah School of Medicine, where he “lost a lot of sleep, learned which end of a stethoscope to put in my ears, and finally figured out where babies come from.” He was also elected to the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society, and he earned the Dean’s Award upon graduation. The doctor completed a three-year residency in family medicine at the McKay-Dee Hospital Center in Ogden, Utah, and went on to practice rural medicine—what he called “being a real doc”—for the better part of two decades. Dr. Christensen retired prematurely from medicine in 2003. When pressed about his decision to leave the profession, he might quote Henry David Thoreau: “Perhaps it seemed to me that I had several more lives to live, and could not spare any more time for that one.” Perhaps his failing vision had something to do with it, too. An autoimmune illness (which still eludes diagnosis) had damaged his retinas, impaired his central vision, and made it difficult for him to practice his art. The thought of his own physical incapacity placing a patient at risk was intolerable, so he reluctantly “closed shop before I hurt somebody.” In the ensuing years, Dr. Christensen has explored new horizons and revisited places he’s been before. He is a certified herbalist. He has dabbled at the edges of Ayurvedism, shared ideas with Chinese physicians, rubbed shoulders with Native American Healers, and wondered about the salutary powers of channeled energy. He has rekindled his life-long fascination with living things, which is reflected in much of his writing. Steve Christensen lives in Sandpoint, Idaho, with his wife, Tonya.

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      Angela's Angry Appendix - Stephen Christensen, MD

      Angela’s Angry Appendix

      By Stephen Christensen, MD

      Copyright 2012 Stephen Christensen

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      Angela woke up early on Friday morning, the day before her birthday. The first thing she thought about was the party she and her mother had been planning for the past month. Angie was going to be ten years old, and she was looking forward to having all of her friends come to her house on Saturday afternoon for cake and ice cream. Later on they’d order pizza, play video games, watch a movie and have a sleepover.

      As she lay there in her bed, though, the thought of all that food made Angie a little sick to her stomach. She hoped that went away before she got to school. The last thing she needed was to start hurling in class. When her queasiness didn’t disappear after several minutes, Angela got out of bed and went down the hallway to the kitchen.

      Mom, I don’t feel so good, she murmured.

      Her mother, who’d been fixing pancakes on the stove, turned and put a hand on Angela’s forehead. She said, I noticed that you didn’t eat much for dinner last night, Angie, but you don’t seem to have a fever. What’s going on?

      Standing barefoot in the kitchen with her bathrobe pulled around her, Angie realized that her stomach was starting to hurt. I don’t know. My belly hurts a little.

      Where does it hurt? her mother asked.

      It kind of hurts all over, Angie replied, rubbing her hand across her stomach.

      Do you feel like you’re going to throw up?

      Not really…well, maybe a little. Anyway, I’m not very hungry. Can I skip breakfast and just get ready for school?

      "If you don’t feel well

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