If you can’t trust “secret news”, who can you trust?

Nutlick’s reaction to the questioning of his involvement spoke volumes.

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.

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.

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

But you are correct. There lies the difference.

Conservatives sure can be a pain in the neck.

Translated: We are cowards and the current president is a ridiculously fragile crybaby who can bury us all if we produce data that indicates he is polling worse than the previous president, who he claims was the worst of all time. We have no spine, no balls, no integrity, and welcome our tissue-skinned commander-in-chief into our eagerly-awaiting spread cheeks.

Seems to be a common theme nowadays.

Listen here you little shit…

I’m living in Baaaakersfieeeeld, I’m at a, month-long, Kid Rock festival…

Fair point.

Like this is supposed to be shocking anymore. It’s expected, and yet accepted for some insane reason. Good times, good times.

And that’s disregarding the mountain of other shit this guy has done just in this term, let alone the last ten years. The man is trash, and 30% of the US identifies with him. JFC

We the People of the United States can.

Goddamnit. That was the first thing that came to mind.

Well, we are certainly gaining enough downhill momentum to get us back up somewhere.

JFC

It was a lot of tests, to be fair, and the funny thing is that it wasn’t all of it. There was another $130 charge for some other tests that they did end up covering - but not without appealing. It wasn’t a standard full panel blood test that I had to get at my age (48) due to family history. But regardless, my Dr ordered it and it’s goddamned covered.