OK, going on with Brut Hombre.
We took him over and sent him up to Surgery, where he was put to asleep by a bored but amused anesthesiologist, and we all gloved up and took turns trying to fish the Brut bottle out through his anus. Impossible. You ever stick your gloved hand up a guy’s ass like that, you will realize why men don’t give birth. That v-shaped angle of the male pelvis makes it impossible to get stuff out through there. Or your hand up there. My hand folded in as it passed through that pelvic V until my thumb was touching my palm. Not only did it hurt like hell, but the deepest I got was the tips of my index and second fingers just touching the bottle. No way I could free it or haul it out.
So Spider Webb called for the OB/gyn tray. You think you’re squcked out, imagine being the next pregnant woman who needs those instruments. OK, they went through the autoclave after Spider got through with them, but still. She worked and worked at that anus until she got really impatient with me, with my chief resident, with Anesthesia, and with that damn Brut bottle (never said a word against the patient, though - maybe she and Patch Adams had something in common). Spider impatient at 1:00 in the morning was a sight to see. Maybe a more comfortable sight if I had been on the sidelines, instead of watching it point at me.
Sometime after 0100 hours Spider gave it up. She announced, we will do an open laparotomy, and we will remove this Brut bottle, and that’s it. Set up for it.
Now our chief resident, who was a very brainy partially bald young man of 27 who had scary eyes and two nicknames, Sherlock Holmes’ Smarter Brother and Psycho Chief, did not like this. He was muttering to me and to the anesthesiologist the whole time they set up. Because, you see, if you operate on uncleansed bowel nine hours into a bowel obstruction, the unfortunate patient has to have a colostomy.
Oh, they can get it reversed three to six months later. But for three to six months, they have to wear the bag. And this poor guy was 22.
Psycho Chief kept saying, “It isn’t a fair punishment to get a colostomy for kinky sex!!!”