It was Monday morning and I didn’t really want to get up and apparently neither did my son. He did mention that his tummy hurt but that was only briefly and then was ok. Later in the day we had to pick him up early from school.
He seemed fine but slightly less energetic than normal. I set him up on my bed and put in a dvd for him to watch. It was out of character that he fell asleep so when my wife, the doctor came up, she wanted to check out the patient. I watched and she was good, obviously the patient trusted mom, and after a few minutes he was pronounced just fine. It was my favorite diagnoses ever.
“He will be just fine. I have checked and he doesn’t have appendicitis”
Only an internal medicine doctor could conceive that a child with a tiny tummy ache could possibly be appendicitis.