At Mon, 19 Aug 2002, cathy:- wrote:
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>This was from a test where they were looking from the inside, right? And
>you've had your appendix removed, right? I wonder if what has happened
>is that you have formed a sort of new appendix from adhesions?
>
>Have you ever wondered what good are adhesions from an evolutionary
>point of view? Well the answer is not that hard... Before the last
>100-150 years or so, if you got appendicitis there were no surgeons to
>take it out. So your appendix would rupture. Well, most people would
>die when this happened, except for people who formed extensive
>adhesions. The adhesions would wall off the ruptured appendix and if
>the person recovered from the peritonitis then they would go on and live
>a normal life span.
>
>So suppose there is a hole were they removed the appendix, and outside
>the intestines there is a bag or pouch of adhesions that keeps the stuff
>that comes through the hole separated from your abdominal cavity.
>(Imagine if a plumbing pipe in your house sprung a leak and you fixed it
>until the plumber got there by taping a plastic bag over it....) That
>would certainly explain why you are still alive and walking around! It
>would also make you wonder about the cluefulness of the doc... If
>you've got adhesions on your right side walling up your leaky plumbing,
>and the doctor insists that you only have adhesions on the left, I'd
>kind of worry about whether the doc really knows what he's doing...
>
>--
>cathy :-)
>