21st March, 2011

I don’t have a spleen.

I am spleenless as well as spineless.

When I ruptured mine in the gym at school in 1976, they said it didn’t matter.  The spleen, like the appendix, was something of an appendix.  Whip it out and on you go, business as usual.

Er, no.

It seems otherwise healthy people, when the wrong bug bites them, can go down very fast.

I’m learning more about this as I go, but could use help on the way.  If, like me, you’re asplenic after a trauma, or you’re an interested haematologist, please leave join this site and be in touch.   Perhaps we’ll start a group.

PS There is now a lot of advice on the internet. I found this page useful.