That's certainly what it sounds like to me, too. My son had a burst appendix when he was 15 or 16. We thought he had a bad case of the flu. When I finally got him to hospital, they wasted no time in getting him to surgery. He was pumped full of antibiotics for quite awhile after, it had been such a mess. I am sure the medical folks where Tamsyn is don't want to see that happen. May they fully open their eyes and minds and find out, for sure, what it is, today.