While in college, I had mono, and the accompanying enlarged spleen that can come with it. My doctor mentioned, “oh, you can palpate your spleen, which means it’s about ten times larger than normal”. I then read up on it, and learned it was more susceptible to rupture from trauma, and, since I had some fever dreams with my mono, had a dream I got round house kicked in the spleen and died. That said, my day job used to include dissection, and yeah, wrong side, liver looks like liver, spleen looks like spleen and never the twain shall meet.
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