appendix photos
Well, it took about eight months but I finally got around to scanning the photos of my appendix. Here it is, infected and looking nasty:
Of course, as any good artist would, I asked that my appendix be saved, so, um, I could do something with it eventually. But just as I was going under, and being wheeled into the OR, the doc said, no, the tissue would go immediately to the path lab and be destroyed. The pics are all I have.
I was telling my uncle about having had this procedure and he told me about his appendectomy. He had it done while doing his medical residency in the seventies. He had to do his own blood work, and then he had the appendix removed under a local anaesthetic! And then, because it was a local, the hospital didn't give him any support–he had to walk out on his own!
That story says a lot about conventional medicine. No wonder people who can't deal with pain end up being critical of so-called allopathic medicine. Historically, it hasn't been for wimps.
That story says a lot about conventional medicine. No wonder people who can't deal with pain end up being critical of so-called allopathic medicine. Historically, it hasn't been for wimps.
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Dan,
I've been thinking about keeping the placenta the next time we have a kid -- someone I know turned hers into a very nice framed water color. David also has some very nice pictures of his colon and Crohn's. Maybe we should start a family internal organ gallery.