25 Times

Healthcare workers getting sick? Yup, we ain’t no more special than the rest of you blokes. My affliction, appeared to be some variant of food poisoning, or “intestinal bug”. Frankly, a 48 hour trip to the loo, won’t be high on my list of exciting recommended excursions. However, as I speak, it was prolonged enough to earn me a day of paid-time-off.

On another note, I certainly empathize with those numerous patients, who had C-diff, or other similar afflictions, requiring frequent linen changes.

25 Times

Diarrhea

25 times,

It sounds kind of exciting

And even though it rhymes,

I wouldn't recommend it

To any kind of friend,

Because 25 expulsions

Makes for a sore bottom end.

Diarrhea

25 repetitions,

Like some kind of penance

From a priest with weird ambitions,

Exploring my fortitude

Amidst the storm in my colon,

Like a conveyor belt of garbage

At the dump; it just kept rolling.

25 trips

To the johnny isn't fun,

Quite often one must canter

Or even, flat-out run,

To avoid public embarrassment

And the horrid, proverbial "Oops",

Your pants show the evidence clearly

You lost the handle on your poops.

25 rounds

Of emptying, got old,

I'm feeling so vacant

Like my intestine was sold,

To the junk man down the street

Collecting bottles, rags and cans,

But wait, there's more, I'm just saying

This wasn't part of my weekend plans.

Fibril_late;

4/29/13

A Liquid Insurgency

At times I think

I'm pretty tough,

But 25 trips

Was quite enough,

8 Hours had passed

I thought, now I am free,

The last chapter played out

On my diaree.

Not so, said my colon

There will be no relief,

Today is day 3

And it's time for more grief,

Let's have more of the same

Your condition didn't pass,

We tricked you for a while

When you only passed gas.

But I was feeling better

And finally ate some dinner,

I slept all through the night

Thinking I was the winner,

But later, after breakfast

There was a rumbling in my gut,

Then a liquid insurgency

Was departing my butt.

I'll hold out till day 4

I'm a tough nut, you'll see,

Then I'll ask for advice

From Doctor McDee,

He might have some insight

On this intestinal issue,

Or consider it a prompt

To invest in toilet tissue.

Fibril_late;

4/29/13

_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

Gurgling Gut

Diarrhea, Day 8 - Final

I was so damned sore

I needed a spinal,

But that condition waxed and waned

And finally quit,

Thank goodness!; my colon

Had quite enough of it!

Now thirty days later

I still have gurgling gut,

After that scorched earth clean out

Stripped my colon to a rut,

So now I'm rebuilding

New intestinal tissue,

A recommendation?

Don't make this your issue.

Fibril_late;

6/1/13