Philosophizing

After watching the news about the discovery of fluid within the heart that helps to heal - the fluid that is usually thrown away during surgeries, it had us discussing other organs that had been previously mysterious.

Did you know that if you have appendicitis that requires removal, your chances of developing any Inflammatory Bowel Disease after the fact is drastically reduced? That it is almost a guarantee not to develop it if you have appendicitis?
**please note that I learned this several years ago, so I am unsure of the real numbers.

So we were wondering if the appendix has a larger role in the idea of inflammation. Almost as though we are born with inflammatory cells that roam around, waiting to be activated, but that the appendix actually draws them into itself to then be ejected. If the appendix does not do its job, then those inflammatory cells are free to roam every other area of the body, infecting everything as it goes.
That visual makes sense as to why a person with one inflammatory condition often develops one or more additional inflammatory illnesses.

I have always visualized my cells systematically attacking all of my organs at different points in my life - often residing in one organ long-term and moving to other organs for short-term inflammation.
Perhaps if my appendix had drawn in all of this inflammation I would suffer with much less of it... but the inflammation hit my large intestine and pancreas before my appendix ever had the opportunity.

Random ideas.