[Main General Bulletin Board | BBFAQ | Prev by Date | Next by Date | Post Followup ] Member Login / Signup - Members see fewer ads. - Latest Member Gallery Photos Having had mine removed a few years ago... Like This Post: - Subscribe to Daily Digest for this Bulletin Board Posted by CrNiFe [Email] (#408) [Profile/Gallery] (more from CrNiFe) on Wed, 10 Oct 2007 10:59:02 In Reply to: Any doctors in the house?, Street, Tue, 9 Oct 2007 11:56:33 Alert me when someone posts in this thread: Members do not see ads below this line. - Help Keep This Site Online - Signup

after first having an abcess on my appendix (and not having it removed because my wife was about to have twins!), only to have it perforate six months later just before a planned appendectomy, I had thought quite a bit about its function.

As a professional investigator, as I suffered through an attack of Clostridium difficile following the operation, it occurred to me that I was vulnerable to attack by the bad germs because there was no place for the good flora to hide when they gave me all those incredibly powerful and deadly antibiotics.

My theory was that it is a reservoir, just in front of the large colon, that makes sure of flora recovery, in the case of eating some bad food that your body purges quickly, so you bounce back.

Damn, usurped by some white coat guys! What have they been doing for the last two hundred years? A lowly engineer thought of the same thing, but who would have believed me, in Feb 2004?

By the way, C. difficile is a really wicked bacterial infection that you can bring yourself into the hospital prior to an operation, or pick up from the hands of staff and visitors. Either way, it really hurts.

I predict that someone will develop a serum of happy flora to inject into our appendices when you get a bad case of C. diff, to settle things down.

Cheers,
CrNiFe
pathologist wannabe, forensice engineer
Toronto

• Any doctors in the house?, Street, Tue, 9 Oct 2007 11:56:33
  • Not only that..., BrianG, Wed, 10 Oct 2007 13:18:05
    • I understand what you're saying..., Street, Wed, 10 Oct 2007 14:37:50
  • Having had mine removed a few years ago..., CrNiFe , Wed, 10 Oct 2007 10:59:02 <-- Viewing This Message
    • C. diff really sucks, turrbo , Wed, 10 Oct 2007 11:33:51
      • Yogurt and Kefir fix???, Bill Homer , Thu, 11 Oct 2007 17:24:09
        • At that time, I was so sick I couldn't keep any, turrbo , Thu, 11 Oct 2007 17:33:57
  • The gut is a dirty place, and..., Chaz, Wed, 10 Oct 2007 03:50:46
    • So some sexual practices are best avoided, ere, Fri, 12 Oct 2007 16:52:10
    • Yeah, I thought about that..., Street, Wed, 10 Oct 2007 14:28:42
  • Re: Any doctors in the house?, Erik919kt, Tue, 9 Oct 2007 14:13:49
    • Re: Any doctors in the house?, TML , Tue, 9 Oct 2007 16:25:16
  • Re: Any doctors in the house?, TML , Tue, 9 Oct 2007 12:42:03

No Site Registration is Required to Post - Site Membership is optional (Member Features List), but helps to keep the site online
for all Saabers. If the site helps you, please consider helping the site by becoming a member.

• Prev by Date: Easy, Saab is great, Wed, 10 Oct 2007 09:51:32
• Next by Date: C. diff really sucks, turrbo, Wed, 10 Oct 2007 11:33:51
• Main General Bulletin Board

StateOfNine.com

SaabClub.com

Jak Stoll Performance

M Car Covers

Ad Available

The content on this site may not be republished without permission. Copyright © 1988-2024 - The Saab Network - saabnet.com.
For usage guidelines, see the Mission & Privacy Notice.
[Contact | Site Map | Saabnet.com on Facebook | Saabnet.com on Twitter | Shop Amazon via TSN | Site Donations]

Random Saabnet.com Member Gallery Photos (Click Image)