Rabin's spleens
zmoq
is a spleen for, anyways?).
I think that he originally had 5, but when one was removed, he had 4 left.
On the documentary "The Making of Leave it" (1984), Godley/Creme had a good
laugh over it when Rabin told them that "I have four spleens" (this is on
video).
-Z.
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Jeff Smith wrote:
> I just listened to a cassette I have of an unpublished interview with
> Trevor Rabin in which he talks about the swimming pool accident that
> delayed the start of the 90125 tour. There is no date on the cassette,
> unfortunately, but it was soon after the accident because Rabin was
> home from the hospital but still on pain medication. He stated that
> rehearsals for the tour were to start in "two weeks," and that he
> hadn't even touched a guitar since the accident.
>
> I haven't transcribed the tape (if you've never done one, believe me,
> it's incredibly tedious), but here's the gist of it:
>
> On January 11, 1984, Tony Dimitriades (the band's manager) called
> everybody with the news that they'd hit number one on the charts. The
> Rabins were in Miami, in the Hotel Fountainebleu, and got one day to
> celebrate. On the 12th, Trevor was in the pool, standing too close to
> the exit of a waterslide, and he was hit by a woman coming down the
> slide. He was helped from the pool, and thought he would be okay, but
> then he passed out and the decision was made to take him to the
> hospital. His blood pressure was dropping, indicating internal
> bleeding, and twice during the night he almost died. They told his wife
> he might not make it.
>
> On the 13th (his birthday--he said his 29th, which doesn't agree with
> sources that say he was born in 1954) they "chopped me open." His
> spleen was lacerated and twice the normal size, and the surgeon removed
> it. The interviewer said, "So now you're spleenless." No, he replied,
> one in a thousand people have auxillary spleens. "You have two
> spleens?" Actually, he said, I have five. (I'm not sure if this meant
> he went from six to five or from five to four.) The others were all
> quite small, but the doctors expected that in five years or so one of
> the small ones would grow to full size and replace the missing one.
>
> So there you have it: Biology of a Rock Star.
>
> Jeff Smith
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> Before you buy.
Jeff Smith
Ken Robertson
wrote:
" owner of an extra spleen
much better than a
owner of a broken heart "
Xponent
"Ken Robertson" <kro...@dhc.net> wrote in message
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> >
> " owner of an extra spleen
> much better than a
> owner of a broken heart "
>
Yann Clochec
<zm...@ix.netcom.com>, lost in all the noise, silently whispered :
>Wow! This is a bit more than I wanted to know about Rabin's spleens (what
>is a spleen for, anyways?).
For Chris Squire to eat?
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DannyOb343
> much better than a
> owner of a broken heart
EXCELLENT!
ep...@netscape.net
yclo...@club-internet.fr (Yann Clochec) wrote:
> On Tue, 28 Dec 1999 22:26:17 -0800, from all of eternity, zmoq
> <zm...@ix.netcom.com>, lost in all the noise, silently whispered :
>
> >Wow! This is a bit more than I wanted to know about Rabin's spleens
(what
> >is a spleen for, anyways?).
>
> For Chris Squire to eat?
no, not the spleen. i think chris needs the liver.
ty
Yann Clochec
ep...@netscape.net, lost in all the noise, silently whispered :
>In article <3869cb57...@news.club-internet.fr>,
> yclo...@club-internet.fr (Yann Clochec) wrote:
>> On Tue, 28 Dec 1999 22:26:17 -0800, from all of eternity, zmoq
>> <zm...@ix.netcom.com>, lost in all the noise, silently whispered :
>>
>> >Wow! This is a bit more than I wanted to know about Rabin's spleens
>(what
>> >is a spleen for, anyways?).
>>
>> For Chris Squire to eat?
>
>no, not the spleen. i think chris needs the liver.
He needs to rearrange it, not eat it ;-)
Giles Lawrence
Yann Clochec <yclo...@club-internet.fr> wrote in message
news:386c2053...@news.club-internet.fr...
> On Wed, 29 Dec 1999 14:29:19 GMT, from all of eternity,
> ep...@netscape.net, lost in all the noise, silently whispered :
>
> >In article <3869cb57...@news.club-internet.fr>,
> > yclo...@club-internet.fr (Yann Clochec) wrote:
> >> On Tue, 28 Dec 1999 22:26:17 -0800, from all of eternity, zmoq
> >> <zm...@ix.netcom.com>, lost in all the noise, silently whispered :
> >>
> >> >Wow! This is a bit more than I wanted to know about Rabin's spleens
> >(what
> >> >is a spleen for, anyways?).
spleen
soft, purplish-red organ that lies on the left side of the abdominal cavity,
under the diaphragm. The spleen filters foreign organisms and old red blood
cells from the bloodstream by means of phagocytic cells that engulf and
destroy them. Certain white blood cells are formed in the spleen. The spleen
also manufactures red blood cells in the fetus toward the end of pregnancy
and takes over again after birth if the bone marrow fails to perform that
function.
Taken from an ONLINE MEDICAL MANUAL!!!!
Giles Lawrence
DannyOb343
soft, purplish-red organ that lies on the left side of the abdominal cavity,
under the diaphragm. The spleen filters foreign organisms and old red blood
cells from the bloodstream by means of phagocytic cells that engulf and
destroy them. Certain white blood cells are formed in the spleen. The spleen
also manufactures red blood cells in the fetus toward the end of pregnancy
and takes over again after birth if the bone marrow fails to perform that
function. The spleen also is known to be the enabling organ to allow humans to
create beautiful, non-computer enhaced/sequenced music.
Steven Sullivan
: spleen
Spleen:
2. Anger; latent spite; ill humor; malice; as, to vent one's spleen.
--
-S.
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