November 10, 2025 • 5 mins
There are some organs that the human body simply doesn't need, so Moyra and Big Trev chatted about those things missing from inside your body!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
I had no idea that there's a number of body
organs you can live without. Obviously, appendix, you fine with that,
It doesn't eve it's not even necessary. Your appendix really
really much, well kind of just hangs off the end.
Mine was facing the wrong way, of course, what do
you mean? Well, because I had an appendicite I which
it was, my appendix was blowing up.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
And then when they remember.
Speaker 1 (00:22):
The doctor coming in at the continuing hospital, goes right,
found out what's going on. Your appendix is stuffed and
it's facing the wrong way.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
And I went, and he goes.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
So take it out, have a good day, and off
he went, and I went, Okay, So.
Speaker 3 (00:36):
He's trying to hide or is trying to pretend I'm
not an appendix?
Speaker 2 (00:39):
Was he was trying to help my live. I'm with
your brother.
Speaker 4 (00:44):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
You can live without your spleen, you can live without
your stomach, You can look without your bow.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
What do you mean you can live without your stomach?
Speaker 2 (00:52):
Yes, all this stuff. I had no idea about.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
One mate of mine. He's got one kidney. He was
playing a football match and got elbowed and lost the kidney.
But the whole thing is he gets drunk so quickly now, right,
Like usually he'd have a few drinks, he'd be fine. Yes,
he has like three or four he's like way, I
don't know how many beds.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
So he's got one kidney and no pants.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
Yes, that's why we called him super naked gay.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
Right, But I know what if you had removed.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
My earlobe, So what happened? Now I had I've got
cysts on my shoulders and across my chest.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
It looks like you've been in a fire, and it
looks like you've been speared, and that's what ye.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
But yeah, I had one the size of a marble,
and it used to give me sharp pain every now
and again, just at separate times. I'd be sitting there
just listening to music. Then bang, it's just sharp pain.
And they took it out. They had to look at it. Goes, No,
it's not cancers, but it's annoying. So yeah, I went
into doctors surgery one day and he just cut it
out and I just had half an e loab.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
Now, wow, I always want it fascinating with people have
missing fingers. Yes, I just I want to know how, Yeah,
because it's out looked out there like you know, you
don't know if people are missing bits on the inside,
but the hands and stuff, I kind of go, oh.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
Was that an accident?
Speaker 3 (02:08):
His name is JP. He's got the tip of his
finger missing like maybe a good maybe half an inch
where he was in a river bed. He picked up
a rock.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
It slipped. He tried to catch you out and the rock.
Speaker 3 (02:22):
Cut his finger off, like the tip of it, and
then just like a nub and just said, I just
sort of flipped down the river.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
He could go and get it, because try and swim
after it. You're sitting in circles.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
Like a duck with a broken all right, Well, know
what if you had remove please, we'd love to know.
Speaker 5 (02:43):
I've had removed out of me. I've had more black
I had a panda. I have had a gastroke. Please,
I had a bypass. I've had the tip of my finger.
Speaker 4 (02:58):
If he was left, Yeah, that's what I wanted too.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
So there are a couple of those things that you
you chose to have, as in, you know, you had
the kids and you had to have cesarian.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
But the gastric did you say gastric sleeve?
Speaker 5 (03:12):
Yeah, because I had I had a gastros sleeve because
my diabetes was too high. Yeah, and I did you work?
Probably so then I had to have the gastric bypass stomach.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
Have you got no stomach at all?
Speaker 5 (03:24):
Well, no, it's just it's sort of yeah, but it sort.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
Of kind of sort of kind of a bit of it.
You get a little bit.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
I can't like a shopping bag. Whatever you got?
Speaker 2 (03:33):
So how much weight did you lose after that experience?
Speaker 5 (03:36):
Thirty five twenty six down to eighteen sixty eight.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
Good on your sister, Good on your Debbie. I mean
that's what I need to do. Just get a leg removed,
probably the stomach, Yeah, probably the most important leg.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
You'd lose weight with the leg, but love sided be
a little bit lopsided, bit lighter though, wouldn't I?
Speaker 3 (03:56):
But there you will be able to drive.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
Marked from upper cobra? What did you have removed?
Speaker 4 (04:03):
So my niece when she was born, was born with
a sixth finger.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
What she didn't want to keep it?
Speaker 4 (04:12):
Wow? The funny thing is, well, she's okay, we've been
telling this. So her her dad denied that she was his,
but he had the same genetics issue. Oh so it
was that's awkward way that they knew.
Speaker 3 (04:36):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's kind of a tell tale, well
finger And so where was the finger?
Speaker 2 (04:40):
Was it like in line with the other ones or
is it somewhere else?
Speaker 4 (04:43):
Yeah, so it was in line, so there's no bones
or anything, and it was just the skin and.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
The and he had the exact same one, so he
had it removed when he was a baby as well.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
That's hilarious.
Speaker 4 (04:58):
Yeah, the way that they removed it, where they just
tied some string around it really tight and it fell.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
Off like a circumcision or yeah, like that or a
sheep's tail a finger, but.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
A finger on it.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
I wonder if she ever felt like it's still there,
like the phantom, the phantom feeling of the sixth finger.
Please do and call us back Mark Gell in time
with right and on Monday two nine
I had no idea that there's a number of body
organs you can live without. Obviously, appendix, you fine with that,
It doesn't eve it's not even necessary. Your appendix really
really much, well kind of just hangs off the end.
Mine was facing the wrong way, of course, what do
you mean? Well, because I had an appendicite I which
it was, my appendix was blowing up.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
And then when they remember.
Speaker 1 (00:22):
The doctor coming in at the continuing hospital, goes right,
found out what's going on. Your appendix is stuffed and
it's facing the wrong way.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
And I went, and he goes.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
So take it out, have a good day, and off
he went, and I went, Okay, So.
Speaker 3 (00:36):
He's trying to hide or is trying to pretend I'm
not an appendix?
Speaker 2 (00:39):
Was he was trying to help my live. I'm with
your brother.
Speaker 4 (00:44):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
You can live without your spleen, you can live without
your stomach, You can look without your bow.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
What do you mean you can live without your stomach?
Speaker 2 (00:52):
Yes, all this stuff. I had no idea about.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
One mate of mine. He's got one kidney. He was
playing a football match and got elbowed and lost the kidney.
But the whole thing is he gets drunk so quickly now, right,
Like usually he'd have a few drinks, he'd be fine. Yes,
he has like three or four he's like way, I
don't know how many beds.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
So he's got one kidney and no pants.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
Yes, that's why we called him super naked gay.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
Right, But I know what if you had removed.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
My earlobe, So what happened? Now I had I've got
cysts on my shoulders and across my chest.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
It looks like you've been in a fire, and it
looks like you've been speared, and that's what ye.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
But yeah, I had one the size of a marble,
and it used to give me sharp pain every now
and again, just at separate times. I'd be sitting there
just listening to music. Then bang, it's just sharp pain.
And they took it out. They had to look at it. Goes, No,
it's not cancers, but it's annoying. So yeah, I went
into doctors surgery one day and he just cut it
out and I just had half an e loab.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
Now, wow, I always want it fascinating with people have
missing fingers. Yes, I just I want to know how, Yeah,
because it's out looked out there like you know, you
don't know if people are missing bits on the inside,
but the hands and stuff, I kind of go, oh.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
Was that an accident?
Speaker 3 (02:08):
His name is JP. He's got the tip of his
finger missing like maybe a good maybe half an inch
where he was in a river bed. He picked up
a rock.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
It slipped. He tried to catch you out and the rock.
Speaker 3 (02:22):
Cut his finger off, like the tip of it, and
then just like a nub and just said, I just
sort of flipped down the river.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
He could go and get it, because try and swim
after it. You're sitting in circles.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
Like a duck with a broken all right, Well, know
what if you had remove please, we'd love to know.
Speaker 5 (02:43):
I've had removed out of me. I've had more black
I had a panda. I have had a gastroke. Please,
I had a bypass. I've had the tip of my finger.
Speaker 4 (02:58):
If he was left, Yeah, that's what I wanted too.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
So there are a couple of those things that you
you chose to have, as in, you know, you had
the kids and you had to have cesarian.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
But the gastric did you say gastric sleeve?
Speaker 5 (03:12):
Yeah, because I had I had a gastros sleeve because
my diabetes was too high. Yeah, and I did you work?
Probably so then I had to have the gastric bypass stomach.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
Have you got no stomach at all?
Speaker 5 (03:24):
Well, no, it's just it's sort of yeah, but it sort.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
Of kind of sort of kind of a bit of it.
You get a little bit.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
I can't like a shopping bag. Whatever you got?
Speaker 2 (03:33):
So how much weight did you lose after that experience?
Speaker 5 (03:36):
Thirty five twenty six down to eighteen sixty eight.
Speaker 1 (03:42):
Good on your sister, Good on your Debbie. I mean
that's what I need to do. Just get a leg removed,
probably the stomach, Yeah, probably the most important leg.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
You'd lose weight with the leg, but love sided be
a little bit lopsided, bit lighter though, wouldn't I?
Speaker 3 (03:56):
But there you will be able to drive.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
Marked from upper cobra? What did you have removed?
Speaker 4 (04:03):
So my niece when she was born, was born with
a sixth finger.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
What she didn't want to keep it?
Speaker 4 (04:12):
Wow? The funny thing is, well, she's okay, we've been
telling this. So her her dad denied that she was his,
but he had the same genetics issue. Oh so it
was that's awkward way that they knew.
Speaker 3 (04:36):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's kind of a tell tale, well
finger And so where was the finger?
Speaker 2 (04:40):
Was it like in line with the other ones or
is it somewhere else?
Speaker 4 (04:43):
Yeah, so it was in line, so there's no bones
or anything, and it was just the skin and.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
The and he had the exact same one, so he
had it removed when he was a baby as well.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
That's hilarious.
Speaker 4 (04:58):
Yeah, the way that they removed it, where they just
tied some string around it really tight and it fell.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
Off like a circumcision or yeah, like that or a
sheep's tail a finger, but.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
A finger on it.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
I wonder if she ever felt like it's still there,
like the phantom, the phantom feeling of the sixth finger.
Please do and call us back Mark Gell in time
with right and on Monday two nine
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