This story takes place sometime in the third season of Star Trek the Next Generation. Captain Picard has gotten to know Wesley pretty well since the time they spent in a shuttle craft together in Samaritan snare. After that and the incident in Q who, were Q introduced them to the Borg Captain Picard began paying more attention to Wesley in the absence of his mother. Their relationship developed into a sort of father son relationship.

Stat trek: The Next Generation -

It had now been a month Since Doctor Crusher had returned and Wesley was glad to have his mom back on board the enterprise. It was a weekend and Wesley had a late shift on the bridge that morning which meant he would be staring at 1100 hours and he would usually get up at about 0930 hours. However Wesley was having a rather restless night as his stomach was bothering him and he wasn't sure why. He was having pain that he normally didn't have. He woke up and asked the computer to locate his mom after checking the time whish was 0645 three hours before he wanted to be up. The computer who was used to the younger family members on board asking for the location of family members without using names or ranks said "Doctor Crusher is currently in Sickbay."

Wesley got up and put on some clothes he had ling around as he decided that he needed to see his mom about the pain as it felt like it was getting worse. He left the quarters that he shared with his mom it was one of the few of the officer's quarters that had two rooms in it as most of them were single adults. The thing that Wesley really liked about it was he also had his own entrance to the main hallway so that if he was working late he didn't have to disturb his mom when he came in. He made his way to sickbay trying to suck up as much of the pain as he could take.

Once he arrived there Doctor Crusher looked up at him and said "you're up early and why are you coming to sickbay?"

Wesley looked at her and said" Mom my stomach hurts bad and it woke me up."

Doctor Crusher reached up and put her hand on his forehead and said "you do feel a little warm, do you want some help getting up on the exam table?"

Wesley said no as he got up on it. Doctor crusher then asked him to lie down on it, which he did to her amazement as most of the time he was extremely reluctant to let her examine him. She then asked him to show her where it hurt, and he pulled up his shirt and pointed to an area between his belly button and hip. Doctor crusher pushed on it and asked him if it hurt when she did that, he said it didn't but it hurt more when she stopped pressing on it. She then picked up her tricorder and scanned him with it, she then put it down and said "sorry Wes it's your appendix and it looks bad it will have to come out."

Wesley groaned and said "will you tell the captain that? Also can you do the surgery on me? I know it's against the rules but I'd feel more comfortable with you doing it."

She smiled and nodded as she helped him off of the bed and walked him over to the surgical prep room. Once they arrived there one of the nurses from sickbay began helping Wesley to change into his gown for the surgery. In the mean time his mom and Doctor Adams were getting ready as well. Another couple of nurses were also preparing the Operating suite for Wesley's surgery when he was brought in. After he was placed on the table and prepped his mom came in and said "ok Wes I'm just going to give you a sedative with this hyprospary to help you to sleep for your surgery."

Once Wesley was out Doctor Crusher made the first incision into her son's abdomen and began to remove his appendix, with Doctor Adams assisting. Doctor Adams initially wanted to do the surgery herself but Doctor Crusher had instead and since most of the staff in sickbay knew how protective she was of Wesley she gave into assisting her on the surgery. The two of them were able to successfully remove his appendix which had ruptured when they opened him; they cleaned out his abdomen as well as they could before closing him up. Once the surgery was finished they moved Wesley back into a private room in sickbay for him to wake up.