Cruise cut short for boy with symptoms of appendicitis

<div id&equals;"releaseBody">&NewLine;<p>PORTSMOUTH&comma; Va&period; &lpar;Dec&period; 11&comma; 2010&rpar; &&num;8211&semi; A Coast Guard rescue helicopter crew medevaced a 13-year-old boy off a cruise ship approximately 40 miles northeast of Cape Hatteras Saturday&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Coast Guard watchstanders received a call at 8 a&period;m&period; from crew aboard the cruise ship Norwegian Jewel reporting they had a teenage boy showing symptoms of acute appendicitis and needing medical attention&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The helicopter crew from Coast Guard Air Station Elizabeth City&comma; N&period;C&period; was dispatched to the scene and hoisted the boy and his mother off the cruise ship at 11&colon;02 a&period;m&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>They were taken to Sentara Norfolk General Hospital&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;