He’d just gone through four hours of surgery, leaving five marks that looked like bullet holes around his navel. He’d lost 20 pounds, his lungs were collapsed, and inflammation was shooting pain to both his bladder and prostate.
For hours, a Wichita surgeon could not find his appendix. After lifting some organs out of the way, suddenly there it was, enlarged and full of waste in a place much too close to his heart. It was taken out immediately.
This was almost one year ago today. Ryan Schadler was so frail he had to stay a week in a hospital bed.