# In Which Trep Goes To Hospital. A Lot. (Slight Return) **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Tags:** beer\ **Created:** [November 7, 2024, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-which-trep-goes-to-hospital-a-lot-slight-return/1009888 "2024-11-07T20:34:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Treppenwitz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treppenwitz/32/3445_2.png) [@Treppenwitz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Treppenwitz)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2024, 9:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-which-trep-goes-to-hospital-a-lot-slight-return/1009888/21 "2024-11-08T09:39:53Z")
Thanks guys - it all caught up with me last night and I had to go to bed. > [@DavidNRockies](#): > > Wishing you nothing but good news ahead for things in your Southern Hemisphere… How politely put… > [@Beckdawrek](#): > > I could relate stories of my kidney surgeries that went just that fast. But, I won’t Hey **Beck** , I’ve had cancer twice, but I definitely give best to you in all things medical. Hang in there girl! 😉 > [@markn\_1](#): > > BTW, unless you’ve been doing some time traveling during this process, a couple of the dates in your story don’t seem to be correct. Yeah, I blame the general anesthetic. It should be: > **Thursday 24 October:** Nobody had called about the tests, so I rang the surgery. Everything normal and prostate cancer excluded. Eh? > > **Friday 25 October:** … > [@Pardel-Lux](#): > > …I am impressed… Thanks for that too! But no more cycling for a little while. > [@Kron](#): > > The second worst thing in this story is the cystoscopy…Worst hospital experience in my life. I’m with you there. I tried to explain how awful this is when I reported on my first go-around with cancer (linked from Background, top of this thread.) I’ve had (calculates) seven cystoscopies, I think, with more to come this time in routine follow ups. The least awful one (performed, incidentally, by an all-female crew - more empathetic, perhaps? Not sure I have the right word) - was still hideous. > [@kayaker](#): > > …A nurse came in and told me that if I didn’t go in 15 minutes I would be recatheterized. I went. For some reason, this time I wasn’t catheterized. For which I am truly grateful. j ---
**Author:** ![Die\_Capacitrix](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/die_capacitrix/32/9_2.png) [@Die\_Capacitrix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Die_Capacitrix)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2024, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-which-trep-goes-to-hospital-a-lot-slight-return/1009888/22 "2024-11-08T18:20:48Z")
I am glad for the all clear. And this particular post got a laugh out of me. Thanks for sharing, and I hope that 4 September 2029 is just beer-colored urine. ---
**Author:** ![Hari\_Seldon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hari_seldon/32/5173_2.png) [@Hari\_Seldon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hari_Seldon)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2024, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-which-trep-goes-to-hospital-a-lot-slight-return/1009888/23 "2024-11-09T00:08:26Z")
Best wishes for a full recovery. I will probably think of better reply on my way up to bed. A couple of times I had blood in my urine, it was a UTI and immediately zapped by the appropriate antibiotic. Pain disappeared within an hour. ---
**Author:** ![markn\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@markn\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/markn_1)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2024, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-which-trep-goes-to-hospital-a-lot-slight-return/1009888/24 "2024-11-09T01:22:23Z")
One day I found my urine was a weird red color. Kinda freaked out, I called my doctor and told him there was blood in my urine. He exclaimed, “You can SEE it?” I said yes and described the color. He told me to come right in. I drove to his office and gave a urine sample. He analyzed it immediately, and came back into the exam room looking a little puzzled. He said he didn’t see any blood cells in the urine. He then asked me, “Have you eaten any beets lately?” I almost collapsed in relief. I had had beets for dinner the night before. He explained that beets will sometimes give urine a color like that. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2024, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-which-trep-goes-to-hospital-a-lot-slight-return/1009888/25 "2024-11-09T03:13:39Z")
> [@markn\_1](#): > > One day I found my urine was a weird red color. Early in our relationship, my gf made me roasted beets with a balsamic glaze. I ate lots. The next morning I had a bowel movement that totally freaked me out until I thought about what I’d eaten and consulted Dr Google. ---
**Author:** ![mnemosyne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c4cdca/32.png) [@mnemosyne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mnemosyne)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2024, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-which-trep-goes-to-hospital-a-lot-slight-return/1009888/26 "2024-11-09T03:41:14Z")
Parenting lesson learned; baby diaper looks awfully red OMG SOMETHING’S WRONG WITH MY BABY…wait …check the daycare menu…yep, beets. Observe 12-24 hours but it really always was just the beets, fortunately. And once, a rather bizarre splotch of paint. ---
**Author:** ![romansperson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/romansperson/32/17100_2.png) [@romansperson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/romansperson)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2024, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-which-trep-goes-to-hospital-a-lot-slight-return/1009888/27 "2024-11-09T03:44:38Z")
Don’t eat a whole lot of blue and red dyed tortilla chips either. Unless you want a fluorescent green surprise the next day. ---
**Author:** ![mnemosyne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c4cdca/32.png) [@mnemosyne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mnemosyne)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2024, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-which-trep-goes-to-hospital-a-lot-slight-return/1009888/28 "2024-11-09T03:49:02Z")
This violates everything I know about colour theory. ---
**Author:** ![romansperson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/romansperson/32/17100_2.png) [@romansperson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/romansperson)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2024, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-which-trep-goes-to-hospital-a-lot-slight-return/1009888/29 "2024-11-09T03:54:17Z")
Apparently yellow digestive tract bile + red/purple/blue food coloring combines to make some … interesting output. ---
**Author:** ![mnemosyne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c4cdca/32.png) [@mnemosyne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mnemosyne)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2024, 4:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-which-trep-goes-to-hospital-a-lot-slight-return/1009888/30 "2024-11-09T04:13:33Z")
Bile yellow, blue dye…sure. The red makes me expect brown…! I’m not disputing you, just amused and vaguely disgusted at circumstances that can result in fluorescent green output. I guess biology is an amazing thing? ---
**Author:** ![markn\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@markn\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/markn_1)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2024, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-which-trep-goes-to-hospital-a-lot-slight-return/1009888/31 "2024-11-09T17:32:07Z")
I’ve had bloody semen three times in my life, which can be a real buzzkill. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2024, 12:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-which-trep-goes-to-hospital-a-lot-slight-return/1009888/32 "2024-11-10T12:31:22Z")
OK, we just need someone who shat blood and someone who vomited blood. ---
**Author:** ![markn\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@markn\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/markn_1)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2024, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-which-trep-goes-to-hospital-a-lot-slight-return/1009888/33 "2024-11-10T17:41:07Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > shat blood Oooh, I got that one. Hemorrhoids. Quite remarkable amount of blood. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2024, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-which-trep-goes-to-hospital-a-lot-slight-return/1009888/34 "2024-11-10T19:25:59Z")
Got “puke blood” for you. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-which-trep-goes-to-hospital-a-lot-slight-return/1009888.md?page=1)