It's 12:44pm--do you know where your appendix is?

What does it do anyway? No one has come up with a reason why we have that appendage anyway....Maybe thats the answer..its valuable tissue for use at a later point? Hmmmm something to ponder? Pat

I had my one year follow-up at USC/Norris yesterday with Dr. John Stein.

He answered two burning questions for me. One regarding current thought about removing the appendix during an RC, and the other about KLH.

At Norris, they have not routinely removed the appendix since 1993, and nowadays they *never* remove it as a matter of course.

Why? Because if something goes wrong in the future, they can use the appendix as a valuable source of tissue. Plus, he said they almost never had situations where it actually needed to be removed in the first place.

The KLH? I'll post that answer later.

Zach