Jackson Goldstone Ruptures his Appendix
Jackson Goldstone has announced on social media that he has been in hospital after rupturing his appendix.
After kicking off the race season with wins at both the Australian and New Zealand national champs followed by a second place at the final stop of the Red Bull Urban DH series, Jackson was off to a great start in his first season of racing Elites. Sadly he has been set back in his training after sustaining a ruptured appendix, luckily Jackson is out of the hospital after four days and there is still plenty of time before racing kicks off in June.
 | Welp. Not ideal… just leaving the hospital after 4 days to finally go home. Ruptured appendix took me out this time. Back to ground 0 on training which is annoying but happy to be outta here! |
We wish Jackson all the best with his recovery and hope he is back and training for the World Cup season soon.
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It's very painful to go through though. Definitely in my worst pain top 5.
A lot of hard core adventurers electively have the surgery because you don't want it happening in a dodgy / remote part of the world cause it can kill.
It burst soon after and I was rushed into emergency surgery... remember as they wheeled me into surgery begging/yelling - "PUT ME UNDER, PUT ME UNDER, PUT ME UNDER" over and over... ha!
Then, if it bursts (like mine) you have a very high chance of infection. Mine got infected... four or five (?)days later, I had a huge golf ball sized abbesses that had to be drained. Doc had to pull the wound back open (that was fun). Then they left the wound open with some kind of gauze drain with an extra large pad thick pad over the whole area. Woke up the next morning with the pad, my underwear and my sheets soaked with puss... that is when I realized how bad large amounts of puss stink... oh god.
Hope you enjoyed my gory story.
I had appendicitis around Christmas, but I thought it was a stomach flue. 4 months later the whole thing went catastrophically wrong. Next to the ruptured appendix, I also had an infected big colon, small colon and blind colon. So everything was sick. When they took a scan off my stomach, they saw nothing but fluid. Bones, intestines,... everything was missing in the pics.
According to the docs 15-30 minutes later in the hospital and I wouldn't be here.
If you feel pain in that region, get it checked. The pain you get from a ruptured appendix is the most a person can get. (even worse than giving birth according to my doctors(don't quote me on that))
no pain for 6 days until the infection set in, doc said I was just in time too...
All seems ok when she returned home, but she started feeling really ill, and was rushed to hospital after passing out. When she came to, the doctor informed her she was being treated for sepsis and then asked when had she had a kidney removed?
Mine was removed though, and I can’t tell any difference in the functioning of my gut tho, so I dunno.
The appendix becomes clogged ( by a fecalith, a fragment of food, like a nut e.g., enlargement of lymphatic tissue due to infection, or parasites). The mucus can't get out, the pressure inside grows, which destroys the mucous membrane (the lining on the inner wall of the appendix) and causes inflammation. With time, all of the layers of the wall are inflamed, which makes it fragile. The added pressure cuts off blood flow to the wall, which weakens it even further up to the point of necrosis and rupture.
Well if one was to be particular about the use of English then it is possible, in theory, to rupture one's appendix through blunt force trauma (ie hitting a tree or more likely a pointy rock) but in this particular case it appears that his appendix ruptured as a result of an infection.
In this case a more accurate headline would have been: "Jackson Goldstone suffers from a ruptured appendix".
It happens, it is more common in males of his age, it is something that is not fully understood medically/ scientifically.
Take care dude, don't rush into activities. I took a month off doing anything and apparently that wasn't enough even though it was twice the recommended time.
FYI: I broke many bones in my past as well, lol.