“MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann was still hospitalized Monday after undergoing an emergency appendectomy Friday,” reports TVWeek.

Apparently, Olbermann’s appendix actually ruptured on Wednesday, but at the time “he wrote it off as a stomach ailment and soldiered on,” even showing up to work on Thursday “to anchor MSNBC’s analysis of President Bush’s prime-time address on the war in Iraq.”

And while we’re obviously pulling for Keith-O to make a full recovery, we can’t help but point out that only Olbermann would mistake the excruciating pain of a burst appendix with the acute discomfort of sitting through another one of Dubya’s infamous pep talks.