Concern --> Call --> ER

• ER

A lingering pain in my lower right abdominal quadrant (for about a week) leads me to call my primary care doctor, Dr. W. She's been my primary care doctor since I was 18, but that's 20 years of mostly healthy history. Dr. W seems willing to wait and see me the following morning in her office, as it is already 4 p.m. when I speak to her, but she's concerned that it could be an appendicitis and she suggests that I head to the ER. Seeing as the hospital is in the same network as her practice, she contacts the ER to let them know I am coming.

They run some tests and my appendix looks good. What doesn't look good is the mass that they see next to my right ovary. That doesn't look good at all. I'm released with some pain meds and directed to call my gyn in the morning and to get in to see him... tomorrow. Wow that urgency isn't frightening at all, thank you ER.