what's happening to our borad TMI

I like to think the ward nurses just wheel in a new bed every 40 minutes, swap you over, and throw the last one out the window.

What happened?

XP Nah, they just roll me over, clean me up, and change the pad under me.

The first time they used a bedpan, but things were too fast and furious to stay that course.

This was topped by three final attacks during a shift change, with me sitting in my own shit watching Anderson Cooper for an hour waiting for who actually was my night nurse.

Huge abcess on the back of my thigh. Antibiotics gave me the shits.

...and today's my birthday.

How huge is huge

Maybe four or five inches of hard stuff that softens and tapers down to my knee.

Tl;Dr; lapsed diabetic injured himself in same place in household accidental falls earlier in the month, thought it was just really stiff muscles. Was very wrong.

Aww damn :(.

Happy birthday, even if it's not feeling amazing right now.

Hope you feel better soon.

Sorry dude. Year has nowhere to go but up!

Feel better, man.

That is ROUGH and I hope it all clears up swiftly. I remember being scoured clean by antibiotics I took for a bad tooth once, some moments of great panic looking for a restroom.

sorry about yr abcess. last time i was on antibiotics it gave me a yeast infection. preferable to shitting oneself imo. and happy birthday? today is mine. happy birthday to us!

Antibiotics are the worst except for all the things they save us from. Happy birthday!

happy birthdays grisso and harbl!!

ditto happy birthdays!

Sorry for your troubles Grisso :(

They've ended up putting me in diapers.

Had a wound pump installed this morning. Should be interesting.

can't believe you're not listing 'obscure songs i heard in the hospital'

good luck man <3

There's no music in this hospital :-(

Maybe I'll blast some Replacements or Northern Soul off Spotify later.

Yikes! Good wishes for you and all your seeping holes.

Wound Vacuum, don't know where pump came from.

So many people have handled my genitals and butthole the past few days.

Saying hello and get better Grisso

From the toilet, where i am currently sitting

Man, that is rough. I remember my diabetic sister having to deal with an abscess right at the top of her ass crack. I don’t recall antibiotics trouble, just a PHN coming every day to change out the packing materiel.

^^^ https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/pilonidal-cyst/symptoms-causes/syc-20376329

They're supposed to be so painful. A coworker had one last year and it took months to heal.

To clarify - I don't have one. I was saying (two months later) that that was what Justine's sister probably had.

I've had one, two of my kids have had them, my father had one, both of my parents-in-law have had one. They are a drag.

Lads this pfizer vax #1 has turned me into a violently farting engine

Nah bro it’s the veggie burger and chips

hemorrhoids keep getting worse and worse until sitting down just becomes difficult. #thisis41

Be thankful they’re not thrombosed
If they are I’m really sorry for you dude

Up that fiber and lower that cheese intake

They're not thankfully.

That's the problem, addicted to cheese

Cheese is delicious in all of its variations

Fiber pills have been helping a lot. I was having to do prep H suppositories for a while just to get things under control.

tofu cheese maybe?

please do not misread that with my display name in mind

there are some pretty tasty non-cheese cheeses out there. and if your eyes have not yet been opened to the glory of #bidetlife, then a world of bliss awaits u

tofu cheese maybe?

there are some pretty tasty non-cheese cheeses out there.

cat entirely otm

do you have one of those donut pillows? having spent much of the past 20 years in a van, I bought one & remembered to bring it with me on my int'l trip this time. it is, to put the point directly, saving my ass.

I don't but I think it's time to get one!

yeah just search hemmorrhoid pillows. there's inflatable ones people use or there's cushion ones. they help if you gotta SOA a lot.

Having to simultaneously piss and shit while stuck in a one on one meeting was fun.

Ended just in the nick of time

The meeting or the waste elimination? Or both?

Had to read that a few times

xpost lol the meeting.

Having to simultaneously piss and shit while stuck in a one and two meeting was fun.

Once they commit to giving you a raise, just let it all go.

a situation commonly referred to being "on the ones and twos"

Once they commit to giving you a raise, just let it all go.

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[face increasingly red and twisted] "Thanks so much hnnngh can I get that in writing please? hnnnngh yeah, now?"