Been there done that with two of my children. One was 8 and the other 14 at the time. Since I have a medical background,
I am a Medical Technologist, I come at this a little differently. The infection, seems to me, to be the most immediate problem here. I can't believe that a physician would even think about not taking the appendix out, with that history and it is even harder to believe that she had a previous "rupture" and it was left in. The fact that she has a bad infection, will, of course, have already stressed her body, so the recovery will be skewed by that. In almost all instances, where a scope surgery is done, recovery seems to be amazingly quick. As for the future pregnancy issue, there should not be one because of this surgery. My two daughters, who had the surgery, have had no trouble, one of them has four children and the other three. If you are worried about that I would ask her surgeon about those statistics. Good Luck