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Another medical question arrives from Courtney, 34, in Omaha, Nebraska:
I have been lucky enough never to need surgery, but if I do ever need to have my appendix, tonsils, or several inches of my intestines removed…
ANSWER ME THIS:
Would the surgeon allow me to take my innards, rather, my newly outtards, home with me in an alcohol-filled jar?
Medics and surgery-alumni, please go to the comments to supply Courtney with her answer.
I know that after I had my gallbladder removed, in my post-surgical party bag was a little plastic jar filled with gallstones, or a spoonful of gravel off the pavement, difficult to call.
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Tags: body parts, medical, souvenirs, surgery
Answer Me This! Podcast 
April 29, 2015 at 3:16 am |
I took my appendix home in a medical specimen jar when I had it removed as an 8years. Now, nearly 35 years later, it is like my very own personal snow globe – when you shake it up, there are lots of bits that float about.
April 28, 2015 at 8:11 pm |
Not a chance, but who said you have to have it done in a hospital?
April 28, 2015 at 4:39 pm |
I know who I’d ask https://twitter.com/ChickAndTheDead/status/590901255418949633