October 03, 2004

Blockage

Mom emailed:

"There was a girl in the hospital Friday that had to have part of her colon taken out due to a blockage. (When you get a blockage, the poop can't move, the bowel dies and becomes rotten, and you have to have it taken out).

I saw the two blockages -- they were dark brown, circular, about the size of a tennis ball and baseball, respectively. Guess what they were? Hair balls!

She eats her hair -- just pulls it out and eats it. But it doesn't get digested, like a cat digesting its own hair. Her hair just rolled up and stayed there, like a huge ball of twine."

Posted by Eric at October 3, 2004 01:55 PM | TrackBack
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i wonder if they sent her home with a prescription for laxatone?

Posted by: laura at October 3, 2004 02:07 PM

Long John Silvers

Posted by: Joseph at October 7, 2004 05:21 PM

Yeah, they're called bezoars. http://www.rotten.com/library/medicine/bezoars/

There was even a Sandman story about it. They're said to neutralize poisons.

Posted by: Wayne Nix at October 19, 2004 01:10 AM
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