Appendicitis Offshore // Andy's Essay
On the Wind Sailing
Andy Schell
4.8 • 593 Ratings
🗓️ 12 July 2016
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
#154. About 48 hours has passed since my appendectomy. I'm sitting at my cousin Dan's kitchen table in North Andover, about 20 miles from Boston, writing this while I spend a few days here recovering. Isbjorn is back at sea, having departed Newport yesterday morning around 0800, about the same time I jumped in the car to drive the two hours north to here.
I'm stiff. I'm sore. I haven't had a good poop since Sunday morning. I'm bored. I've watched more TV than I have in years. On the plus side, Wimbledon and the Tour de France is on in the mornings, and Germany is about to play France this afternoon in the Euro football championships to see who gets to play Portugal in the Finals. This whole thing feels surreal.
The thing is, I never get sick. Ever. At least not the kind of sick that requires a visit to the doctor, let alone to the hospital. In an ambulance! The occasional cold, sure. The flu? I had it once in the past ten years. I was due for this, in a pessimistic way I guess. And almost fitting that it happened not only on the boat, but also while we were offshore at sea, and with paying crew to boot! And to me! Anyway. Here's what happened.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, this is Anna Winners live from Sweden. Welcome back to the... |
| 0:05.0 | Okay. Hey, this is Anna Winners live from Sweden. Welcome back to the 59 North Sailing podcast with your host, Andy Schell. Enjoy the show. |
| 0:18.3 | Greetings, greetings. Welcome back to a special episode of 59 degrees north. |
| 0:24.5 | I'm Andy Shell. |
| 0:25.3 | I am sitting in my cousin Dan's house in Boston laid up with my appendix recently removed. |
| 0:33.3 | So I've been pretty bored and sitting around here just kind of recovering, hoping to go back to |
| 0:39.1 | the boat on Saturday when they get up to Nova Scotia. It's Thursday, as I record this, Thursday, |
| 0:45.1 | July 7th. This will come out on the 12th on Tuesday. So hopefully by the time you hear this, I'll be |
| 0:49.9 | back on the boat. But anyway, I had some time to kill. I've had a lot of time to kill since my surgery, |
| 0:55.2 | and I wrote a long article about exactly what happened to us the other day offshore. So, without |
| 1:03.8 | further ado, I'm just going to read that article, and that will be this episode of, yeah, |
| 1:08.6 | this week's episode of the podcast. I think we're on number 154 by now. |
| 1:13.3 | So sit back, relax. It's a long one, 4,600 words, and I'll get right to it. |
| 1:17.6 | Thank you. I'm going to be. And so I'm going to |
| 1:28.3 | I'm And the days when I was coached and I was never tired of sorts |
| 1:54.0 | To the yellow sand the hall house and many's the place between |
| 1:57.0 | Well I told me from this, James I'll go off and I'll be famous So go and tell the vice |
| 2:02.1 | Some neighbor leaving here today |
| 2:03.6 | About 48 hours is past |
| 2:05.6 | Myrdectomy |
| 2:06.6 | No longer on the dough |
| 2:09.6 | As sure as my name is Patty |
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