Jake Tapper's 15-year-old daughter revealed that she nearly died last year due to a ruptured appendix, with her illness going misdiagnosed for several days and her parents having to call a hospital administrator as her skin started turning green. Alice Paul Tapper, writing an op-Ed for her father's employers at , is relaying her experience because she and her family want to spread awareness of the surprisingly common issue. She wrote that around of last year, she was hospitalized with stomach pains but doctors immediately told her that it wasn't appendicitis, a condition in which the appendix becomes inflamed and filled with fluid, causing serious pain.
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