Either way, they did the right thing. Glad you're feeling better in time for Xmas.
Glad you went to the hospital promptly. Between the covid and xmas on the way it would have been easy for you to...

Our pathologists always seemed to be able to find a little inflammation in the most normal looking appendices.

So they did it despite a negative CT--good for them. Did they tell you if was inflamed?
Before scans we used to say that 15% of your appendectomies should find a normal appendix, otherwise you were...

Classic appendicitis:--generalized abdominal pain, then vomiting but not profuse, THEN pain in the right lower quadrant, fever in the 100's, maybe 101's. Elevated WBC but not super high. Tenderness...

And you know the Rangers were aiming for the incisions.

http://www.si.com/nhl/2015/05/16/ap-hkn-lightning-callahan