I'm sorry, but the Spleen is the shit!

[Liberal Veteran]

[auntAgonist]

1. don't have one of those

had it removed in 1977

[CO Liberal]

4. Same Here - in 1971

I fell off a platform on my high school stage, and woke up four hours later in the hospital. I had a concussion, a bruised shoulder, and they held me for a few days for observation.

A few nights later, I awoke around 2 AM with horrible abdominal pain. The next morning, my MD called in a specialist. they discovered I was bleeding internally and rushed me in to surgery. it seemed that when I fell, one of my ribs had punctured a capillary in my spleen, and it started swelling like a balloon.

The surgeon later told me that my spleen burst in his hand as he was removing it. Talk about good timing......

[auntAgonist]

6. mine was removed due to

ITP... idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura, also known as immune thrombocytopenic purpura, it's classified as an autoimmune disease. In an autoimmune disease the body mounts an attack toward one or more otherwise normal organ systems. In ITP, platelets are the target. They are marked as foreign by the immune system and eliminated in the spleen, or sometimes the liver.


on edit: clarification.

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

2. I thought the colon was

[Reverend_Smitty]

3. I'm not sure if it's the shit...

but I'm pretty sure it is the largest lymph node in the body

[peekaloo]

5. Quite refreshing when vented.

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[Orsino]

7. Then you're doing it wrong! n/t