Ugly Stepchild

If you work in the hospital, you have been up close and personal with stool. We are nurses, we mess around with the stuff.....lots of jokes to simmer down the nastiness. But when it happens to me (or you) it's time to feel the suffering. So, although this is about me, it's a universal suffering. 

Ugly Stepchild

Gurgle-gut

Is still acting up

Three months later  and more,

Not diarrhea and `

Not constipation,

But certainly

A bothersome chore,

Colitis or IBS

Or one of those irritating cousins,

I guess if I went to the

Medical books,

I would find

Variants in the dozens.  

Norovirus

Is something to shake a stick at,

C-Difficele's ugly stepchild

The odds are I won't be getting fat,

Eating seems completely undisturbed

Cramping, comes early in digestion,

The ever-present gurgling noises

Herald an upcoming decongestion.

Gurgle-gut

I thought it would go away

In a month or two,

I think the scorched-earth policy

In my colon

Was overkill; don't you?

Similar to Agent Orange

Defoliating, that Asian swamp,

Norovirus seems to have decimated my GI tract

During its historical romp.

Fibril_late;

6/30/13