Bye Bye Baseball

My recent laproscopic luau went quite well and rendered five surrenders: an ovary, a fallopian tube, a complex cyst, and two apparent splenules. All in extensive testing as we speak; no doubt. My final answers will hopefully come tomorrow, but preliminarily, we're looking at ovarian cyst and splenules.

Splenule is a new word for me. It's been documented that a spleen can have accessories or even regenerate when broken pieces implant, somewhat like a liver. Who knew? When I ruptured my spleen as a teen, many small pieces apparently settled around my abdomen, implanting themselves and growing. Despite removing the main spleen that was damaged, some little pieces remained and thrived.

My initial reading reveals that the splenules actually can do some work of a spleen. So, have I just had a double splenectomy? I don't know. But, one of the splenules was the size of a baseball and I'm relieved to have it gone.