Misplaced Eye

Author: Kent Zeigler
Email:zeig0006@tc.umn.edu
Date:1998/12/01
Forums:alt.tasteless

A day or two back, I posted an ObT about finding an eyeball encased in a
little racquetball-lookin' meat thing at work.  Well, after a few
minutes of thought, I realized, wait, I don't think there's enough
muscle etc. around the eye, but inside the orbit, to make a ball that
size.  So, when my boss came in today, I looked that sucker up by
specimen number, and guess what I found?????  The down and dirty of the
chart follows:

Guy came in complaining of lower-right abdominal pain, which was just
almost certainly appendicitis (it was). During the X-Ray, the physician
noted a round, cystic, fluid-filled mass 3" in diameter in the upper
left quadrant.  So they asked the patient, saying it looked to be really
well-encapsulated, and they thought they could take it out easily
enough.
Patient said "Ah, what the hell.", and so out it came, easy as pie, but
looking like a bloody meatball.  Sent it to Pathology to have it checked
out, they cut into it (resulting in slit mentioned in ObT) and damned if
it wasn't an eye.  This was, unfortunately, in the days before DNA
testing, so they couldn't determine if it was just a misplaced third eye
of his, or part of an absorbed twin.  Anyway, I figured either a
third-eye mutation or parasitic twin was sufficiently cool, and decided
to let it rest at that. 

Kent/PB, who loves his job more and more every day