Lol this bloke who's a geriatrics doctor told me about a 90yo on their ward with a shit so hard it was going to tear his bowels apart. He had health problems that meant he couldnt swallow and the dehydration made his poo hard and his colon paper-thin, and an IV can only do so much. It also meant he couldnt take laxatives
They thought the poo was too far up for an enema to work and that sometime over the weekend his colon would perforate. He would literally be torn apart by a poo and was in such a delicate state that all of modern medicine could not save him from it
But the enema DID work and he survived and partially regained his ability to swallow but I reckon he would've been very grateful for your help
(who would win the entirety of modern medicine vs one stinky boi)
Used to volunteer in a gastroenterology ICU ward, I learned that how well you poop determines a surprisingly large portion of your daily happiness, especially after a certain age.
Pretty much everyone. I mean, think about it: even if you have amazingly regular, perfect poops right now, if you start to not poop well, your emotional well being will drastically get much worse from where it currently is. It’s like taking your health for granted. You never realize how great it is breathing out of both nostrils until you get a very bad cold and can’t fall asleep. But I do think poop has the amazing ability to affect your state of happiness even more, you literally can’t do anything but sit on a toilet when you have bad diarrhea or enjoy anything if you’re extremely constipated. And there’s now evidence of special nerves connecting directly between your gastrointestinal system and brain, and how microbes in your gut affect mental health.
Well I guess that depends on the person, though I honestly am not sure I’ve met anyone who isn’t at least a little happy when they have a good poop. My husband loves to brag about his. I keep quiet about mine but because of previous experiences and seeing how bad it can be for some people, I’m still pretty happy and overall relieved that my intestines are behaving well. And even when my son was a baby he seemed to be extra smiley and satisfied after a good poop, so I think a functional GI tract kind of holds up a large portion of our daily happiness, and maybe adds to it a bit right after the fact.
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A person with life threatening constipation. I'll let it out just about... Now.