AN INSIDE LOOK

[Mark Joel Lane]

 

I recently had a CT scan of my abdomen and pelvic area as my doctor advised me to take this test due to a dull ache in my groin area I had been complaining about for weeks. He called to say everything looked clear but the CT scan revealed a lot of things I never knew. I have 2 hernias and what really freaked me out 2 spleens. Who knew? Perhaps I can give a spleen or hernia to the Scarecrow or Tin man.

The doctor, a gastroenterologist said my CT scan was clear. yeah-clear as mud..nothing to worry about, he said..Nothing to worry about? I have a benign cyst on one kidney, a whole bunch of diverticula, and an enlarged prostate pressing against my bladder which is normal for someone my age. NORMAL? I'm not a happy camper. My happy camping days were about 50 years ago at Robin Hood Day camp on Long Island.

Who knows what other wonderful attractions are lurking in my body? I don't think I want to know. The worry, the anxiety,the shock of hearing I have 2 spleens is freaking me out. But at least I don't have a spare rib.

[ozzieowl]

If I learn any more of what ails you here Mark, 

I fear that they will have to carry me off to hospital too,

coz my sides would be splitting from laughter.....

[darroll]

You must have the cleanest blood in town.

[TeeBubbaDee]

As Desi would have said to Lucy, You got a lot of spleein to do!

[DannyO]

After my own CTs and MRIs turned up a bunch of random things that my doctor told me were nothing to worry about, I worried anyway until I did some research.  It turns out that almost everyone has a harmless but unusual thing in their innards.  It's stranger not to have a benign tumor or a few cysts than not.  Normally these things would never be detected except perhaps by an autopsy, but thanks to the latest imaging technology, we can see everything, including a bunch of unimportant stuff.