JB at the hospital: long day

Forgive me if the typing is weird. I'm doing this on my phone.
Friday night JB was a little congested, but we live in Virginia Beach and school just got finished, so allergies and colds happen.
Saturday we went to the beach, and Saturday night JB was complaining he was dizzy. We figured he was dehydrated from being at the beach and in the sun for a couple hours.
Yesterday (Saturday) he ran a fever, but nothing else seemed wrong. At this point we were figuring it was a cold.
This morning, Nat and I slept in from the school year 5:30am start. It was 6:30 when we started to get up, and JB comes into the room telling us that his stomach hurt. There wasn't anything really wrong with this, until he curled up on the floor of the bathroom when we asked him if he was going to throw up.
Seems this the "my belly hurts" means "I am doubled over in pain and there is nothing anyone can do about it"
JB might be a bit overdramatic at times, but this was way different from normal.
We did get him back in bed for a bit. He started to act like he felt better. He even started to eat breakfast. And then he started with the discomfort again. At this point it is all way too familiar.
I had my appendix go the first Spring semester at Bloomsburg almost 20 years ago. Everytime one of the boys is not feeling well, I've actually been watching for any sign that the appendix is involved. Mostly Nat suggets I might be paranoid. Mostly she's been right.
Today, after seeing Jake be this uncomfortable, and asking to go to the doctor's. It sometimes sucks being right.
Nat took JB to his doctor, who sent us back to the ER near the house.
The ER near the house did the CT and then sent us to the Children's Hospital of the King's Daughters in Norfolk, via ambulance. Seems that with CHKD here, no one wants to do surgery on an 8-year-old.
I was home with Sam, and working, vstill hoping I was wrong.
I got to CHKD between 5:30 and 6 pm during the joy of tunnel backed up Norfolk rush hour. But I did get there.
Jake slept mostly while we waited till almost 11pm for an open ER. He's in here now and we are waiting. Sam's sleeping on a bench and Nat and I are running the communication plan now that we have signals on our phones.
More updates as they come.
If anyone wants to leave a voice message for Jacob, hit the Google Voice Call Me widget on the front page. I'll make sure he gets it when he's home.

Update: Just spoke to surgeon. JB is out of surgery. Appendix was advanced but not ruptured. More updates later.