Could you all do me a favour?

[sg]

Could you take your index finger and use it to locate where your ribs meet in the middle, then travel downwards and see if you can feel an inch-long, gristly springy thing that points down. If you find one, could you tell me if you have ever noticed it before and possibly what it is? I went to the doctor and she told me it was a bone, but I have never noticed it before a few weeks ago, and I am sure it is growing.
Is it normal?
thanks

sg

[mycats]

Yeah, I have that. Though saying that I also have a huge scar down right down my front so maybe not the best person to reply lol

[raysparx]

I can only find me willy when I do it !!!

[bigsister]

Its a piece of cartilage attached to the Sternum (the bone that joins your ribs in front) . I think you must be slim to be able to feel yours though, I'm much too fat. It really is normal though. If you ever get to see a medical skeleton, you will see this part quite distinctly.

[raysparx]

No can't find one,but I am a bit fat, this a serious answer,honest, ray

[redcrx]

i didnt find it or a willy.
Like ray, i have a little bit of extra fat just at that point so mines probably just covered.

[whiffey]

It's called the xiphisternum (as SR will verify)

[sg]

Thanks, so I'm not dying then?
cat, thanks, by the way, you should read the new Gideon Defoe novel - Pirates! in an adventure with Whaling.
ray, or should I say Robin Asquith, Oo-er!
bigsister, thank you , and yes I am a bit scrawny.
red, ok.
whiffey, you are a hot peppered genius .

[mccfluff]

nope but prob to fat to find it x

[whiffey]

The place (not) to go prodding around looking for lumps is in your abdomen. You will find massive tumours everywhere. Also try palpating your liver to see if you are in imminent liver failure, see if you have an enlarged spleen, massage your own prostate, there's so much waiting to be discovered. lol.

[~posy-jo~]

i can feel it!! xXx

[Pippa68]

I can feel this too ~ and I am quite fat so that pleased me :o)

I remember first feeling this and talking to my mum about it..she found hers on the same day, and later on I got a phone call from my aunt who was asking about this 'funny lump which hurts when you press it'.

[raysparx]

good god whiffey,can you check my farmer giles out for me,very poor harvest this year !!!

[whiffey]

raysparx, I think I worked out "drop a log", is Farmer Giles also botty-related ? Where does a harvest fit into it though.

[raysparx]

THe grapes old boy the grapes!!!!

[raysparx]

Farmer giles=piles

[raysparx]

I must see the Dr I am sure I am going crazy on this site,do you agree? am I crackers?

[Pippa68]

Or the Clements..as in Clement Freud :o) or another one ~ Chalfonts! Chalfont~St Giles.

LOL ray....bum grapes!

[tinkertontom]

raysparxs you really make me laugh keep it up

[whiffey]

raysparx you can sort them out with a short length of chicken wire, be sure to wear gloves.

[raysparx]

Do you want som pippa? they are seedless red ones!!!!