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It was not indigestion

About 10 days ago, I woke up at 4am feeling a little indigestion. I have had food poisoning, so I knew it wasn't that. I figured I ate something that didn't agree with me, but I could wait it out. I mean, doesn't everyone need to take Tums every now and then?   Well, I waited...and I waited...and I waited. After about four hours, I wasn't feeling any better, so I looked up appendicitis symptoms, you know, as you do. I had only one of the common symptoms and all of the uncommon ones. I texted my good friend who is a doctor, just in case. I told her, though, "I don't think it's appendicitis, because I don't have any of the normal symptoms." She was working, so I texted someone else and said that if I don't get better, can she go with me to the doctor? Apparently, this was the person to talk to because she'd been through this before. By that, I mean she had taken two people to the hospital for appendicitis in the last couple of years. All the ...