Introducing Billy
BELLY  PAIN
By Delbert Blickenstaff 

On Saturday morning I woke up with pain in my belly. I felt sick to my stomach but I didn’t throw up. I had never felt like this before. I told Mom and Dad that I was too sick to eat breakfast. Dad is a doctor so he tried to figure out what was wrong with me. 

Dad told me to try to relax on my bed and he pressed on my belly a little in different areas. He kept asking me if it hurt when he poked me. Everything hurt a little but I think that it hurt more on my right side than on my left side. 

Dad told Mom that he thought I might have early appendicitis and that I should go to the hospital. I didn’t know what that was but it didn’t sound good. 

So Mom arranged for Grandma to stay with Henry and Emily and both Dad and Mom took me to the emergency room at the hospital. I rode on the back seat of the car going to the hospital, lying down. Whenever the car hit a bump in the road I felt pain in my belly. 

When we got to the hospital someone brought a bed on wheels to the car and put me on it and rolled me into the emergency room. The doctor asked me some questions and then he pressed on my belly like Dad did. It still hurt but I didn’t cry. 

Then a nurse came in and told me that she was going to take some blood from my arm and it would hurt a little. Mom held my other arm while the nurse stuck me. It wasn’t too bad. We had to wait while the blood test was done. 

The emergency room doctor came back and told us that the blood test was normal and he thought that I did not have appendicitis. Dad did not want to argue with him so we went back home. 

Dad put me back to bed and gave me a children’s pain pill. Nelly knew I was sick and she jumped up on my bed and laid down beside me. I was able to drink a little juice but I didn’t eat anything all day. 

Billy