[at-l] Re: Cell phone connection availability

[icw39@ncfreedom.net (Clark Wright)]

My wife thinks my abdomen is acute one! :)

thru-punner

W F Thorneloe wrote:
> 
> I'd be really surprised if that was the case. Rarely does someone with an
> acute abdomen walk - anywhere. He may have felt some vague abdominal
> discomfort that progressed to generalized pain, localized and became an
> acute abdomen that required evacuation. The diagnosis of appendicitis is
> complicated for surgeons. I suggest you are excessively critical of a sick
> man, and place a higher degree of medical/surgical competence than is
> appropriate.
> 
> I hope you never have the occasion to experience the pain of an acute
> abdomen or the impossibility of walking with it. I hope you are not
> similarly critical of others with medical conditions that preclude hiking
> at your pace.
> 
> OrangeBug
> 
> At 11:33 AM 3/19/2002 -0500, Slyatpct@aol.com wrote:
> >Wasn't this the guy that left to start his section hike with abdominal pain
> >and continued in pain, until finally his appendix burst, when he had amble
> >time to turn around make it back to the car on his own?  And I called him a
> >haphazard hiker, which he clearly was?
> 
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