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
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" and took off in a run to the back,
another 24 hours "testing" when they started prepping me for a colonoscopy, (camera up the
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)
then the "golightly" crap i had to drink flushed all my
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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
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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
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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
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is sore again,
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i cant help it i had to get outside
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i mowed the yard (about 3 acres) yesterday and this morning it was swollen again
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