A week long trip to the hospital

As much of you know, from my emails and Facebook posts, Zak has been in the hospital for the past week. Thankfully  he was released yesterday and is now relaxing at home on the couch. He went to the emergency room when we suspected that his appendix was rupturing, and 8 hours later they confirmed that for us. Soon after he was diagnosed he headed into surgery where they discovered that his appendix had already ruptured. An appendectomy is a pretty routine procedure, and most people can even go home the next day. But when you have a ruptured appendix it can be life threatening due to the toxic fluid being released into your body. His first surgery went well for 48 hours until he started to bleed out of one of his incisions. (it was laproscopic so he had three small incisions) They tried to patch him up with gauze, but it was pretty much like a geyser coming out of his abdomen. So he was again admitted into surgery. This time it was not so easy to find the problem so they had to make a very large vertical incision to see everything that was going on inside his abdomen. They fixed his clotting issue, and cleaned him out. It was very scary for the first 48 hours following his second surgery, we all wondered and hoped that nothing else would go wrong. He was released yesterday (Friday) and I think he is much more comfortable at home! Recovery is going well, we even walked around the city a bit today. He wanted me to post a picture so he could give everyone a thumbs up.. I warn you he looks a bit bruised and battered.

And for those of you interested in what his scar looks like... Click on the censored photo below to link to the up-close photo.

Thanks for all the well wishes everyone, he really is feeling much better.

While Zak was in the hospital I was in charge of moving into the apartment, getting the couch, washer and dryer delivered and hooked up. Everything went well, and I love our new couch! 

It is actually dark brown but it looks black in the photos.

The washer and dryer are brand new, but they are 110V and the hook up in the apartment is 220V. So silly me- I thought you could just use and adapter and everything would work. Nope. Wrong. I am pretty sure the dryer is ka-put. We shall find out when Zak is well enough and he can inspect it! I couldn't find the hot water switch all week so I was taking cold showers and hoping for the best, but then I found the plug to the hot water heater... woo hoo! I am so happy to have hot showers again. :) Not much more to update, didn't do much traveling around Korea this week besides going back and forth to the hospital. Take care everyone, have a great weekend and week to follow!