I’m glad I was contacted by Debbie from Suburb Sanity about a comment I left at This Girl’s Life …I was having a little brain lapse and couldn’t figure out what to say today. I guess you don’t just make comments about your mother’s appendix and get away with it. The premise of that post was to name the thing that (God forbid) if you die, you would hate to have everyone find as they went through your stuff.
I’m an only child. I got all my mom’s attention. All the good and the bad and the weird. My mother for some unknown reason kept her appendix in a jar. Maybe you have one too. It was in the top drawer of her dresser (she had one of those tall ones) and for the first few years of my life she would have to take it out so I could see it. Once I grew up a little, I was able to reach up and get it out on my own. It was probably only a semi-annual thing. Not like I was taking a peak all the time.
I found it weirdly amusing and not strange at all. See I come from a family of doctors…a lot of them. I was supposed to be one. Until I cut my finger on a pool table at age 13 and passed out. That was the end of my medical career. Now I’m considered the one who never amounted to much. “Oh, she’s a MOM”… “Just call your cousins, the DOCTORS if you need anything”
Doesn’t matter, organs in a jar are still cool and in formaldehyde are even cooler. Until you have to go through your mom’s stuff years later. My mom died in 2001. It had been a while since I had peaked in those drawers, but now it was all up to me. My mom never threw anything away…boy I’m still living that dream. And there was the appendix. Dried up and shriveled with no formaldehyde left. Maybe if I had gone to Jefferson Medical I would have known that the juice doesn’t last forever and what was a cool organ now looked like a semi wet/ semi dried root.
if you are from a non-medical background, or get grossed out easily, you may not want to look at the picture…
Again, doesn’t matter. I still can’t throw it out. And I can’t let my kids see it. They are biologically too far removed from the DOCTORS in the family to be able to stomach that kind of thing. If I die, maybe you guys can tell them…top drawer on the left…close your eyes and toss it all out…
You aren’t coming back now are you?
ok i had to scroll real fast cuz apparently we both got the gross out gene…now I need to talk to you about how much i need to pay you to win those friggin earbuds…oh dont forget my bday is the 18th…there are ahem several things i like from your shop wink wink keep this on the DL ya hear now
Okay either that is a tiny jar or your mom had a HUGE appendix. It looks like a finger. And yes I even clicked on it to enlarge it. Thought for a second it was a penis. heh heh My dad saved his wisdom teeth he had pulled and always joked that he wanted to have necklace for mom made out of them.
I’ll be back. I also tried to enlarge the pic to get a better look. I can’t hardly see it very well. Can you take it out of the jar and maybe put it on a napkin, or plate, so I can get a better look? I’ve never seen one up close and personal.
ROFL. Oh well, we can’t all be doctors, eh!
I am laughing so hard at Deb’s comment! She ain’t right!!! ROFL!!
This was sooooooo funny!!!! I loved it!
I just read this out loud to my mom. We are cracking up. She said she kept her tonsils in a jar for a year and would chase her sister around the house with them trying to scare her. LOL!!
That is disturbing.
Oh that is priceless. Thank you so much for elaborating. I honestly couldn’t let that little nugget go and not ask for more. As for Jill’s comment – why do we hang around her? She is the sick one:)
Me and Jill’s dad also saved his gall stones!! eeewwww!
Too funny…I’ll always come back to see my friend. Merry Xmas!!!!
Okay, so then you won’t think it’s weird that I tried to win Danny Elfman’s appendix when I was in high school? He was still with Oingo Boingo and they were pretty much our local heroes. I dialed and dialed but to no avail. Had I won it, I know it would be proudly displayed next to my China… or at least tucked behind it.
some of these comments are funny. i had kidney stone. had it blasted. didn’t keep the beautiful fragments. don’t need a reminder of something that caused me a LOT of pain lol i’m wimpy like that hehe
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this sounds like something my mom would do too… i will have to ask her if she has any body parts in a jar
so did you top it back up with formaldehyde?
Classic!
My granny kept her gall stones in a jar. Apparently they were really big. I think we still have those also!
OMG, I am dying laughing over here.
HaHa! I peeked through my fingers!
I didn’t know what to expect before scrolling down but it wasn’t as bad as I thought it was going to be.
I didn’t know what to expect before scrolling down but it wasn’t as bad as I thought it was going to be.
I didn’t know what to expect before scrolling down but it wasn’t as bad as I thought it was going to be.
I didn’t know what to expect before scrolling down but it wasn’t as bad as I thought it was going to be.
Is it in YOUR dresser drawer? Cause then THAT would be weird! Only child – yeah, that explains SOOO much!