The nurse is assessing a patient with cholelithiasis. Which statements by the patient indicate a progression to cholecystitis?
A) "I've been in terrible pain for 2 hours."
B) "I'm hot and sweating, then cold and shivering."
C) "The pain's in the same location as when I had appendicitis."
D) "I need an emesis basin; I've vomited four times."
E) "My abdomen and my back both hurt."
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