On Mon, 30 May 2016 06:53:30 -0700 (PDT), "
> wrote:

>On Sunday, May 29, 2016 at 6:08:53 PM UTC-5, Julie Bove wrote:
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>> > wrote in message
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>> > I learned they can REALLY help with severe
>> > gut issues that for some unfathomable reason I was
>> > plagued with 2 years ago two or three times. I
>> > take a probiotic capsule daily and that misery seems
>> > to be a thing of the past. Don't know what brought it
>> > on either.
>>
>> We now know that one reason for the appendix is that it's a natural source
>> of probiotics. People who have had theirs removed, need to supplement.
>>
>Ah well, I had my appendix removed 40+ years ago.

Mine was removed 63 years ago, when I was ten. Back then an
appendectomy required a week's hospital stay. When I arrived home my
younger brother gifted me with a very severe case of chicken pox...
you don't know itch until you have pox under your bandages. On the
plus side they put me under with a spinal, I was sitting on the edge
of the table when a nurse with the most massive boobs bent me over and
stuffed my entire face into her cleavage while the doctor stuck me, I
remember no pain and couldn't scream out anyway... some things I never
forget.