I feel a radiant bond to everyone I know who has had an appendectomy. We are twin flames now.

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What’s wild about appendicitis is
it just happens out of nowhere like we don’t really know what causes your appendix to get infected besides maybe constipation increases your chances
There’s literally nothing you can do to prevent getting appendicitis at some point in your life at complete random
1 in 20 people will get appendicitis
It’s extremely serious and an emergency and you must go to the emergency room ASAP and will most likely need surgery to have your appendix removed
But it’s okay because we don’t actually know what the appendix does and it doesn’t seem to do anything so just getting rid of it is fine
And removing it is super easy it takes like 15 minutes to 90 minutes at most
But they gotta inflate you with gas like it’s e621 at the hospital tonight in order to do it and that ends up hurting worse than the appendicitis