Yeah, that happened.
Have you ever experienced something so out of the ordinary and unexplainable that decades later it remained in your mind? One of those things where out of the blue you will remember it and think "Yeah, that happened!" A couple of blog posts ago I wrote that I do believe in miracles and have witnessed a few. One of those dealt with me back in the 80s and when I was in recovery after having an extremely enlarged spleen removed. It was that spleen which caused me so much pain and isolation growing up. Dozen upon dozen of hospitalizations, tests, and ping-ponging back and forth between specialists trying to discover what the root cause was for the ever-expanding enlargement and all the other odd symptoms I dealt with since the age of 9. By the age of 14 it was enlarged to the point where part of it was no longer protected by my ribcage. I would experience attacks where the pain in my side would make me pass out. Doctors were so concerned about it that they removed me fr