>>>All uneventful. She'll be home tomorrow.....
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>So now I can tell you that in my training days, ultrasound wasn't sufficiently advanced and in a girl of her presumed age, appendectomy via a lateral incision could well turn into something challenging. The first time I did an appendectomy in the night, I found what felt like a hard orange rather than an inflamed appendix. It was a torted ovarian teratoma with hair and teeth.

Horrible! On the brighter side, given the 'hair and teeth' you could probably have sold the film rights :-}

>These days she'll have had a fairly sure ultrasound diagnosis beforehand and a quick endoscopic grab so she can be home a little stiff but cheerful tomorrow.

She would have been allowed to come home yesterday evening but was tired and a bit groggy from the anaesthetic so thought it best she stayed the night.
Should be home early today so family Xmas is back on the agenda.

Going back to the original topic of health care provision the only direct cost to us was £6 for car parking at the hospital.
The only downside was that she was readied for theatre three times on Sat. evening and on each occasion it was cancelled because of a more urgent A&E admission....

All the best!

Have an excellent Xmas !