Update on after the surgery...

[loribee59]

I know this is going to be incredibly hard for someone like you to believe, but gay people get all the diseases that straight people get.

Including cancer (which I found out I don't have).

Including herniated rectums (which I did have) which become infected and can perforate (which mine almost did).

How does one get a herniated rectum? By getting really, really, really, REALLY constipated — as I did back in the early 1980s, again in the mid 1980s, and also in the mid 1990s. I would love for you to be able to use me as the Poster Boy For Why God Sends Diseases Down Upon Homosexuals, but if you get really, really, really, REALLY constipated, you may end up with a herniated rectum — and when you do, I will smile a smile of pure schadenfreude when you are in the hospital recovering.

heh...I was on morphine for the first 2 days after I had my hysterectomy (no cancer, either) five years ago.

get well, and thank GOD that you don't have cancer. that's the LEAST of your worries, and surgical pain WILL go away.

take care!

~loribee