Well this stinks!

Dave H (MI)

Well-known Member
I'm in the hospital. Took a day off Saturday and did some farm chores. Trimmed the last fruit tree. Woke up 5 AM Sunday with a lot of abdomenal pain. Just thought I over did on the chores. Got worse as day went on. Kept getting sick. Went to doc, got sent to ER. Bowel obstruction. Tube thru nose to drain stomach. Walking and meds have me feeling better. Dodged the surgeon I think. Maybe goin home tomorrow. Posting on cell is a bear!
 
Oh MAN! Ain't that fun when they run that hose up your nose and tell you to swallow it? Then you lay there trying to keep it over to one side of the throat so you don't gag. BTDT!
No matter how much you torture yourself and play sick though,the daughter is still going off to MSU you know.
 
I know how miserable a nose tube is so you have my sympathy. I had one for 6 weeks following surgery to get food, liquids and meds. Never so glad to get rid of something in all my life.
 
Feel for you Dave. Been there too. Worst pain I have ever had. Started out mild, kinda like hunger pains. Progressed through the night. Ended in surgery.
 
I drink a glass of metamucil 100 percent psyllium seed husks each night. Orange flavored, sweetened and mixed with water. Helps with regularity and stool consistency.
 
Get well soon. I hear that there's a gallon of this stuff that one drinks before a colonoscopy that will unstop anything. I'm not trying to play doctor here, but ask your doctor for some of that stuff. I've never tried it, but I witnessed what happened to those that have, and it works. Get well, go home.

Mark
 
She was sittin here when I read that. Why you laughing? Oh....its nuttin! :)

Feeling lots better. Hoping to go home tomorrow.
 

Good luck. I've been where you are, for the same reasons. It sucks, but I am careful about my diet, and exercise, at least a little bit. I haven't had any flare ups in years.
 
Been there, well part way. You have my sympathies. In recovery mode from surgery right now myself. Don't do well with incarceration - whatever the reason.
 
Roger and Pete spelled it out right. The old 'garden hose up the nose' treatment. The memories still make me cringe and it happened 43 years ago. I hope you get outa there real quick. Take care of yourself.
 
Dave Barry says he cuts all this liquid medicine stuff with vodka... makes it much better. Google his "Colonoscopy" story sometime.
 
also , if you still have your apendix, have then check it, i had the same symtoms many years ago i layed around the house and thought it would heal, wrong, i near died!
 

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