“I almost died around Thanksgiving last year, and it was entirely preventable,” Alice Tapper, Jake Tapper’s 15-year-old daughter, said in an op-ed about her appendicitis misdiagnosis.
Gary Miller / FilmMagicJake Tapper’s daughter, Alice Tapper, opened up about her appendicitis misdiagnosis — and how she says it almost cost her her life.describing her experience getting sick, and how doctors originally diagnosed her with a viral infection.
The teen was transferred to another hospital when her pain intensified, and she said her parents urged the providers to check for appendicitis. “I felt helpless,” she wrote. “My condition wasn’t the only thing that alarmed me; so did the lack of recognition I received from the hospital. I was not being heard; when I described to the doctors how much pain I was in, they responded with condescending looks.”
According to the Mayo Clinic, a perforated appendix, or appendicitis, is “an inflammation of the appendix, a finger-shaped pouch that projects from your colon on the lower right side of your abdomen.” For most people, pain begins around the belly button and then moves around the abdominal area.“Two ... drains were inserted in my body to get rid of the toxic leakage,” she said. “I had sepsis, and we would later learn I was going into hypovolemic shock — which can cause organs to stop working.
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