The Worst Night of My Life

Not the Christmas present I was hoping for.

David McIlroy
ILLUMINATION
Published in
3 min readFeb 14, 2024

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When I was 11, my appendix burst.

My parents thought I had a stomach bug. I spent three days in bed, eating dry toast while gangrene slowly poisoned my blood.

Our family doctor caught it right before it was almost too late.

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