The surgery did, but it was a long recovery period. I think it was three months with a temporary colostomy bag while my intestine healed and then at least a year for my body to get used to the new setup. After about 5 years I noticed that I was closer to normal, or as normal as you can be after getting a j-pouch. But it’s better than going through continued episodes. I don’t think I would have survived more than a couple additional bouts. Plus living with UC really increases your risk of colorectal cancer. Fun stuff

Yeah, this was the fourth recurrence of it and by the time I went into the hospital I had lost nearly half of my blood or something. I think I needed four pints iirc. I don’t remember exactly, I was near dead. Kinda sucked. After surgery and a year of healing I was able to regain the weight it and get back in shape. Haven’t had another issue with it since. Plus I don’t have a lower intestine, so no colon cancer! Silver lining and all.

Ha, oh man. When I finally got unplugged from everything, about two weeks later, I sorta sprinted up a small flight of stairs and felt every muscle in my legs tearing. It was a very strange and uncomfortable feeling. It probably hurt a lot but they had me on some gnarly painkillers. I did feel it the next day though when I got home. That was about 13 years ago. I hope they have better treatments for it now than surgery. It seemed like a better option than Remicade at the time. Oh well, what’s done is done. Basically back to normal after all this time.

I hope you don’t. In my case nothing helped so I had my lower intestine removed. The made a facsimile with a section of small intestine and re-plumbed me. It was during that recovery period that I went on TPN to effectively reduce the usage of my digestive system.

TPN is Total Parenteral Nutrition. Basically it’s a large bag of glucose, lipids, vitamins and minerals that is fed through a PICC line (in you upper arm) directly above your heart for thorough dilution and distribution through your bloodstream. An external peristaltic pump doses it into you throughout the day. It’s a trip, albeit cumbersome. Oh, and it does spikeTF out of your blood sugars so you have to take insulin during the process, which sucks.

Yeah. Now that I think about it, a female-led country song is more tolerable than a male lead. I think it’s the voice, and the lyrics… and the guitar, and the everything else. Yeah, nah. I just can’t do it.

But old stuff, like Jolene from Dolly or Patsy Cline (or KD Lang’s renditions) and folksy stuff like Cash (Highway Man is boss) and Woody Guthrie are a-ok.

Honestly, No Rain immediately came to mind, but if I am being honest it doesn’t disturb me as much as others. Damn close though. I think it was just a product of the massive amount of airtime that song got.

Had ulcerative colitis. Went about a month on Gatorade and clear vegetable broth. Another month or two on TPN after surgery with very little to no veggie broth.

Went from 175 to 115. 0/10 would not recommend.

Bittersweet Symphony. Not entirely sure why, but the repetitive strings grate me pretty quick.

Outside of that, any country song from the past 40 years. I can tolerate older folk-country stuff. But newer country? Absolutely not. I hate that I can’t open my mind to it, because there are very few genres that I avoid, but country is simply repulsive to me.

A dead deer, mind you.

I guess we have so much awesome healthcare here at home that it makes sense to provide some to…. Greenland.

Amazing

And the stock market did rejoice. This is all a ball and shell game for us when they know where the ball is.

Aliens were Jesus all along!

Man, what an act of desperation, misdirection, and a completely absurd gesture. If there actually was indisputable evidence, physical or otherwise, there isn’t a chance in hell they would let that out. It would throw a good portion of civilization into a panic.

That’s what makes it hilarious. It’s such a stupidly ridiculous number in that sport. It’s like saying you successfully accomplished a 36 as a pro bowler.

But you are correct. There lies the difference.

It would be if that was the reason they arrested him.

Yes, but not for the pedo stuff

We are surrounded by assholes!

Conservatives sure can be a pain in the neck.