:eek: How the heck does THAT happen? clutches at self
Cervaise, eventually it’s going to have to happen. Sorry, dude. I had similar willies after the doctors fed me a ton of barium for an X-ray series of my innards. Not an experience I want to have again. But hey, at least it wasn’t cancer…
Trying to read really bad poetry 
With respect to Douglas Adams
Si
Trying to make this a short story:
I was born with an esophagus that is too short. This pulled my stomach way up into the chest cavity.
After several operations the stomach perforated, spilling its contents into the chest cavity and contaminating the area.
The resulting infections caused the tissues in the chest cavity to be weak, allowing for the intestines to poke through.
That is how the doc explained it to me (just this past Tuesday.) He may have dumbed it down for me, but that is a faithful representation of what he said (I keep a medical journal.)
Damn. I have a small hiatus hernia, which is bad enough, but nowhere near that bad. I hope they can sort you out, Khadaji.
Si
Thanks! The doc said that this will be the last operation (with only a 15% chance of recurrence.) But then, he told me that the *last *op would be the last…
Yep. I had my hernia checked about 3 years ago, with an eye to getting it repaired. My surgeon was happy to do it, but felt that the chances of recurrence were pretty high over an extended period of time. Given that it does not give me too much bother for now, I decided to live with it.
But surgical techniques and materials are constantly improving. So here is hoping.
Si
Wait, you get a hernia when you go on vacation, too?
:D&R:
At 1:30 this morning, I birthed a brown python. Huzzah!
Congrats – so the cancer’s all gone, then?
Why does this conjure images of prolapsed rectums? “Rectum? Hardly knew 'em”