I had an appendicitis attack my freshman year in high school. It started to hurt in 2nd period and by 3rd period (Band), I was apparently white as a ghost with pain. I asked the band teacher if I could go to the office, he looked at me, got all wide-eyed and said that yes, I could totally go. Afterwards he said he regretted not sending someone with me. It was a quarter-mile walk from the band room (at the middle school) to the office. The pain got so bad I had a plan to use my last bit of energy to yell out to the people playing tennis before passing out. But I made it. When I got there, I mumbled to the girl sitting there that I think I needed to go home. She couldn't understand me. I tried again, and she still couldn't make it out. That's when one of the secretaries saw me and shouted "YOU NEED TO GO HOME!!!" They put me in the nurse's office, while I could hear the secretary shouting down the hall that I was having an appendicitis attack. While they tried to reach my mom, they called my dad (a teacher there) in. He looked in at me, confirmed that I should go home, and went back to class. I thanked him for his concern.
They eventually got ahold of my mom, who drove in, picked me up, took me home, and then called the doctor to see what to do (not exactly efficient). They said bring me to the hospital, so off we went. I was actually already feeling better by that point, going from "so this is what death feels like" to "I only feel like a few knives are stabbing me right now". The doctors did a few pokes and prodding and an ultrasound. By the time it was all done, the determined that my appendix had gotten swollen, but was already getting better. So they decided not to take it out.
Came back to school the next day to discover that there had been a minor explosion in gossip over whether or not I had died sometime during the day. That I was walking around fine the next day killed off the buzz, and people quickly went back to their normal business.
Still do have my appendix. Wasn't really a fan of how it decided to remind me that day of its existence.
