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Quotes About Appendicitis

My sister says tearfully that she has a feeling that she will never see me again. I am not very much impressed, because she has felt this every time I go to the East. And what, she asks, is she to do if Rosalind gets appendicitis? There seems no reason why my fourteen-year-old daughter should get appendicitis, and all I can think of to reply is: 'Don't operate on her yourself!' For my sister has a great reputation for hasty action with her scissors,
~ Agatha Christie Mallowan
I was about to get on a plane and take my husband away for his birthday, I thought oh I have tummy ache. I went into A&E and they said 'oh, you need surgery,' it was really weird - it was appendicitis.
~ Emma Willis
Some one said the other day that there was a divorce and a case of appendicitis in every family one knows.
~ Edith Wharton
I went to the doctor and he said I had acute appendicitis, and I said compared to who?
~ Jay London
I went to the doctor and he said I had acute appendicitis, and I said compared to who?
~ Jay London
Oh, I'm dying,' I like moaned. 'Oh, I have a ghastly pain in my side. Appendicitis, it is. Ooooooh.' 'Appendy shitehouse,' grumbled this veck.
~ Anthony Burgess
One of the patients at Kellogg's Seventh-day Adventist sanitarium was C. W. Post, who got the idea there for Grape Nuts, which made him rich. Among Grape Nuts' advertised health benefits was curing appendicitis. As it happened, Post later had an apparent appendicitis attack, and when surgery didn't end his distress, he shot and killed himself.
~ Kurt Andersen
there is a way of separating one's dreams from one's life which so often produces good results that I ask myself whether one ought not, at all costs, to try it, simply as a preventive, just as certain surgeons make out that we ought, to avoid the risk of appendicitis later on, to have all our appendices taken out when we are children.
~ Marcel Proust