thanks Cheesemaker,  yea  i had  the ruptured colon in 1997,  so i know exactly how you fealt,  it  was 24 hours  befor i got  to the ER  in Littlerock, when i walked into the ER  the  head nurse looked up at me from her desk said "OH " and took off in a run to the back,
  another 24 hours  "testing"  when  they started  prepping me  for  a colonoscopy,  (camera up the )
then  the  "golightly" crap i had to drink  flushed  all my    into my stomach cavity,   even though  i had been given more  morphine  than "was legal to give"   i was screaming in pain,  they sent me to emergency surgery,    they  cut me from my breastbone  to Mr Winkie   and  had to remove all my  intestines  and clean them,  then put them back in,

that was  the 1st of 3  major stomach surgeries, the second was to remove the poo bag  from my side,  the 3rd was 2 years later when i was working  and  tried to catch  a 70 pound steel  concrete shute  and ripped  the insicion open,  that  was the 3rd


a couple years later  i met all my friends here

i need to find  the picture my mom took of my belly  a month after the surgery,  they sent me home on a friday afternoon  and the tornado  that leveled half  of Arkadelphia  hit  that saturday morning


oh  and this just in,  my kidney hasnt hurt  since  saturday  so  the prayers  definitely help

but  my   is  sore again,     i  cant help it i had to get outside 

i mowed the yard (about 3 acres) yesterday and this morning it was swollen again