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Appendicitis does not present in a standard way. >> reporter: it's been nine months since alice tapper finally got her appendectomy. and after a particularly dark time she is once again allowing herself to start dreaming about the future. but now she has a new mission as well. >> i want to row in college and maybe study zoology. i just love how my life is turning out. i think that it was a really -- i wish it never happened to me, obviously. but i think it was a really important learning experience for me. i want other kids to know that they need to advocate for themselves. >> so sanjay, you'r...

Story as a cautionary tale and to shed light on how something so common, so treatable could go so terribly wrong. >> i started throwing up on a saturday morning, and i got really sick. i was just not getting better. so my parents took me to go into the hospital. >> reporter: most likely diagnosis at the time, stomach pains, possible food poisoning, gastroenteritis. jennifer was particularly worried about appendicitis. >> i said -- this is on monday. and i said why don't you just give herr a sonogram. she has so much going on down there, she's in so much pain. let's just see what it is because ...