Parkinson’s starts in the appendix, gut

[agate]

renee, how does it happen that your appendix is part of your urinary tract? I always thought of the appendix as the one totally uninvolved part of the body, the part that has nothing to do with anything but apparently that's yesterday's theory, and nowadays they've been finding that it's not so useless. In a Wikipedia article about it I found this--and maybe that's what you had?

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[Virginia]

When I had to have another surgery my then doctor took my appendix out for no good reason. I now want it back. It is the cause of me having to get up 3 to 4 times per night.

[renee]

Dunh

Mitranoff, si. I'm glad my appendix was still in me for the surgery- a continent urinary diversion. The continent of South America.