the ‘umble spleen.

the ‘umble spleen.

It lurks tucked up behind the stomach, a soft black leather purse moulded to the contours of adjacent organs like a dark shadow, the sort of organ you’d ignore, a remnant, a vestige, a redundancy.  No wonder surgeons removed the spleen with impunity if they were operating on the stomach.  But this ain’t no vestige.  Remove it at your patients peril.  People without a spleen have six times the risk of getting pneumonia and other infections and a fifty percent increase in heart attacks.  Be it ever so ‘umble,  the... Read more »

Discovery!  With a frozen grape.

Discovery! With a frozen grape.

Frozen grapes are delicious served with chocolate truffles and cream.  If you let them warm up a bit, you can bite through them and feel the cold juice squirt around your mouth.  But Roz found this difficult.    ‘I can’t eat these. I have sensitive teeth.’ ‘Well just try swallowing them and... Read more »