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Having had mine removed a few years ago... 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 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
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