A young friend of mine showed up at the gym on Monday after a lengthy absence. She explained that the day before Thanksgiving she started feeling sick at work but thought it was just indigestion. When she got home and felt no better, her mother took her to Lancaster General in the early morning hours, and sure enough it was appendicitis.
The surgeon came in to talk to her before the laparoscopic operation and she begged him to please avoid the elaborate tattoo on her lower abdomen when making his incision.
He did, but alas he couldn't avoid two of her abdominal piercings.
I wish I'd known about her operation earlier, because I would have sent her a toy appendix from www.iheartguts.com. This hip little Washington DC-based company, founded by an illustrator, sells adorable plush toys in the shape of internal organs. I bought a pancreas for a friend of mine with a nasty case of pancreatitis. How about a bright-red heart, with major blood vessels attached, for Valentine's Day?
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