03-09-2013, 01:35 AM
I've just had an interesting experience. Early last Tuesday I had to go to the ER at our regional hospital because it seemed that I might have a recurrence of the twisted bowel I had 5 years ago, and this indeed proved to be the case. This time I eventually escaped but not until today. My "smart" phone expired just before I went in, and the hospital has no wi-fi available to patients so I have been suffering Breastnexus withdrawal symptoms as well as PM withdrawal symptoms and general starvation.
During the past week my chest has been extensively exposed to a large number of hospital staff, doctors and specialists, and nobody made any direct comment. However...
My bowel was finally untwisted by a gastroenterologist and the distension partially relieved using some form of colonoscope. He had a somewhat professorial manner, and held forth during the procedure to his interns. This particular specialist has been in the news of late because of multiple allegations that he indulged in unnecessary and inappropriate breast examinations prior to procedures, as a result of which he is currently barred from treating female patients while his case is under review. In my case he pointed out quite unnecessarily to his interns that I exhibited a classic case of Campbell de Morgan spots (harmless tiny red spots on just my chest and breasts).
The effect of the twist had been that my belly became distended to an extreme degree, and I did receive quips from nurses that I was 9 months pregnant (or later 7 months after some relief of the distension). I can't help feeling that my breast development must have enhanced the effect. Later, when the worst of the distension had subsided, my wife said I still looked 6 months pregnant. Things are now more or less back to normal, and at least I escaped surgery this time. I'm told that after my previous surgery this second 'volvulus' simply shouldn't have occurred. Perhaps nature is taking revenge on me for wanting to feel like a woman, since this pseudo-pregnancy was certainly not a pleasant experience.
During the past week my chest has been extensively exposed to a large number of hospital staff, doctors and specialists, and nobody made any direct comment. However...
My bowel was finally untwisted by a gastroenterologist and the distension partially relieved using some form of colonoscope. He had a somewhat professorial manner, and held forth during the procedure to his interns. This particular specialist has been in the news of late because of multiple allegations that he indulged in unnecessary and inappropriate breast examinations prior to procedures, as a result of which he is currently barred from treating female patients while his case is under review. In my case he pointed out quite unnecessarily to his interns that I exhibited a classic case of Campbell de Morgan spots (harmless tiny red spots on just my chest and breasts).
The effect of the twist had been that my belly became distended to an extreme degree, and I did receive quips from nurses that I was 9 months pregnant (or later 7 months after some relief of the distension). I can't help feeling that my breast development must have enhanced the effect. Later, when the worst of the distension had subsided, my wife said I still looked 6 months pregnant. Things are now more or less back to normal, and at least I escaped surgery this time. I'm told that after my previous surgery this second 'volvulus' simply shouldn't have occurred. Perhaps nature is taking revenge on me for wanting to feel like a woman, since this pseudo-pregnancy was certainly not a pleasant experience.