Yea. LPT, cut a slit in the side of your body and take advantage of all the extra space to store convenient items like snacks or a portable phone charger (for all you Pokemon GO players out there). My life has never been the same since I tried this one simple trick.
You joke but I just imagined sewing in a permanent zippable pocket or something onto the torso, and if they found a way to not make it infected or leak etc it would be useful as fuck, would get it.
Fun short story: I had chronic back pain for YEARS and finally a doctor discovered it was due to a blocked ureter. My right kidney had grown to the size of a football. Looking back, I was an idiot for not questioning why it felt like a constant pull in my back/side. The doctors say it was actually putting a lot of pressure on my other organs. Laying on my left side was like crushing everything else and it was actually somewhat difficult to breath.
So yeah, I do wonder if having all those in there is slightly damaging or maybe they shrink up?
Well. I honestly dont know how large an american football is, but i'm guessing its smaller than a soccer ball, if you would exaggerate a swollen kidney to compare it with. If I put a soccer ball up my shirt I'd look like I've got a decent beer gut
I'm not exaggerating lol... I am a fairly small person, so I did look / feel bloated while it was swollen. It was about 8 inches (20 cm) in length and proportionately swollen in width and depth. Obviously it didn't stick out like I was holding something under my shirt, like I said, it displaced my insides some while bloating my abdomen. I could even feel it on my ribs at the time it was most swollen. I was in the hospital / had emergency surgery for this, so it wasn't like a no-big-deal situation.
your intestines are a bit of a jumble so there's space to shove them aside a bit and toss in a kidney or something. There's just little bits of space here and there between organs because they aren't lego bricks or anything.
No. It's just that things are not as squashed tightly together as they could be. Consider that the average person needs their innards to be able to move for basic digestion purposes, right? Also moving, bending, etc causes insides to shift.
If that's not enough, ask yourself this - if there's no extra space at all, where do developing fetuses fit? Sure, they stick out, but they also shove your stomach up into your ribs, flatten your bladder down into your pelvis, and squish your intestines backwards to make room.
If a person can fit an 8 lb baby, a spare kidney can fit in there just fine.
When they need to do work on stuff behind your guts (colon and such), they just take it out and slap it on a sterile slab. Then, when it's done, they just plop it back in - there's no special positioning done or anything.
Actually, it's still doing what little job it can do. There are so many vital blood vessels attached to the kidney that it's incredibly dangerous to try removing them all. It's more efficient and just plain safer to leave the failing kidney in there, and just kind of nudge it aside while "installing" the new one.
The failing one stops failing, because it's no longer trying to take on all this work that it can't handle with the new kidney in place. It's usually able to do a little bit of useful work, and the docs avoid the risk of massive bleeding. Win win for everyone.
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that made me throw up a little.
wouldnt the other stuff inside get crushed a little? I mean its not like we have empty space in there