Visiting Ireland for a two week road trip I became ill. I saw a doctor at a clinic and she sent me to the hospital. They removed my ruptured appendix Tuesday! This could have turned out much worse! I am so thankful that I saw a doctor.

I left my heart in Ireland last year,
today I might leave something else.

My belly started hurting on vacation day three,
and it seems I might now become appendix free.

Naas general is where I’m currently lying in wait,
after being prodded, checked, measured and  weighed.

It’s terrible timing and so unwelcome 
to be sick on vacation, a thing we do so seldom.

Eventually I will fly back west to my own lovely little nest, 
a man now with less parts, but one with more zest.

Ireland I don’t care that you want pieces of me,
I will keep coming back while there is someone I must see.