OK I was on the phone with him last night, and I got the dope on what happened and I have his permission to share...
TMI WARNING!
It seems he had a large roid in the
which ruptured. The first time he went to the hospital they put him on intravenous antibiotics for a couple hours and sent him home with some meds.
The next day he was feeling worse and went back to the hospital, they determined he at severe risk of sepsis and had to operate.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sepsis He said they actually went it to the side of the butthole, so now he's got a spare butthole so when he's got his head up his
he can still see.
Anyhoo, he's feeling OK and giving the nurses a hard time.