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As with almost everyone who survives, note the missing spleen


That sounds extremely confident. I can google that it's a common area of internal bleeding but what is the exact likelihood in that particular instance?


What is this referring to?


A ruptured spleen causes internal bleeding. It's one of the more likely traumatic injuries to the abdomen. If you have had it removed, internal bleeding is less likely.


> If your spleen has ruptured, you may need a splenectomy immediately because of life-threatening internal bleeding. A rupture may be caused by a physical injury, such as being hit by a car, or by an enlargement of your spleen.

https://www.healthline.com/health/spleen-removal


The article mentions that if he had a spleen it would have ruptured from the fall and he would have bleed to death.


The proverbial spleen. Every "survivor" had this extraordinary luck that happened to position them just the right way to come out on top.




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