Alice Tapper had a severe case of appendicitis that nearly turned fatal, but doctors had dismissed it because it didn’t present in its typical way.
“My condition wasn’t the only thing that alarmed me; so did the lack of recognition I received from the hospital,” Alice wrote in an op-ed. “I was not being heard; when I described to the doctors how much pain I was in, they responded with condescending looks.”“My condition wasn’t the only thing that alarmed me; so did the lack of recognition I received from the hospital,” Alice wrote in an op-ed.
Alice said she began to feel “helpless” and “alarmed” by the “lack of recognition I received from the hospital.” “I had sepsis and we would later learn I was going into hypovolemic shock — which can cause organs to stop working. That night was the scariest night of my life,” she wrote, adding that after leaving the ICU she stayed in the hospital for an additional week “bedridden with uncomfortable drains” in her body.