Posted on 06/17/2017 7:22:13 AM PDT by Morgana
magine two decades of never being able to fully relieve yourself in the bathroom.
That was the experience a 22-year-old Chinese man lived with before doctors in Shanghai removed 30 inches of his extremely swollen colon. Weighing nearly 29 pounds, his colon was filled with feces that had accumulated there over his lifetime. He told doctors that hed suffered constipation for his entire life, and that laxatives only offered minor relief. Doctor Yin Lu of Tenth Peoples Hospital of Shanghai, where the surgery was performed, told Chinese news site The Paper that the mans abdomen looked as if he was more than nine months pregnant.
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Proof of what we know about democrats.
Now I know where that old saying “You’re full of sh$t” came from. Can you imagine????
No because the man lacked nerve cells to induce peristalsis. Without the muscle contractions nothing goes anywhere.
Ah it’s a new band of millenials
So, this guy is a stock market analyst?
My dad suffered from constipation most of his life. His colon ruptured from it, he got septic poisoning and died.
I think Elvis Presley had 40 pounds of waste in him they found during his autopsy.
I didn’t know obunghole weighed that much!
Lucky me. I’m like a bird dog. I eat and then crap. Lucky me.
“Swollen colon...wasn’t that the name of the bathhouse that Barry the Kenyan used to frequent in Chicago?”
Yep...he was also a big fan of the Flaming Anus.
I'm disappointed - I thought this was going to be a story about Chuck Schumer ...
I thought it was fake. Like those stories from India and Pakistan.
But i read it and it’s the sensationalist and presentation headline that makes it seem fake.
It’s a known and characterized genetic disease.
Hirschsprungs disease.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hirschsprung%27s_disease
Oh my goodness, that poor man! That he had to spend so many years suffering tells you what a terrible healthcare system China has.
With friends like this who needs enemas
Eating too much white rice can cause serious constipation. Hubby and I learned this the hard way when we vacationed in Spain. We ate way too much paella LMAO.
Canned mashed pumpkin added to cat or dog food can help with constipation.
For occasional use, it's great. However magnesium citrate side effects: "If this product is used too frequently, it may cause loss of normal bowel function and an inability to have a bowel movement without using the product (laxative dependence)".
Most people with this complication become democrats and newscasters.
Did he win the Crepitation Contest? https://www.amazon.com/Crepitation-Contest-CD-Farting/dp/B000KSXEZ0
Man, would hate to be the Tidy Bowl Man after this guy.....
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