Approximately Three Plus Days Elapsed

Approximately three plus days elapsed... without yours truly experiencing urge to defecate Neither bloating nor constipation arose, but one nondescript anguished logophile anticipated intestinal blockage, hence prophesying worse case scenario I (predicated in direction for an adult) ingested three Dulcolax tablets and subsequently this joker found himself riddled with debilitating diarrhea dilemma that afflicted me hours on end today April 11th, 2022. Severe **** travails immediately brought forth rectal recollections regarding my offal bout with shigella circa approximately July fourth holiday nineteen hundred and eighty seven which ranked as worst pain in the ****. Two women (Ziona and Susan – surnames unknown), plus your truly, which trio befriended each other from Thursday night contra dance. Aforementioned women minimally identified via first name basis (since their sir nom de plume unknown at this juncture), and yours truly linkedin, via above said social venue. This piece of information mentioned since that innocuous site (Summit Presbyterian Church at Green and Westview Streets within Mount Airy, Pennsylvania) essentially served as figurative starting point per following true anecdote. Though about thirty five years ago, my memory easily jogged, asper unforeseen brush with death. Innocence and naïveté twin factors, tangentially contributed to agonizing ordeal. Ask me what I ate for breakfast this morning, and ye will receive a blank stare! Turn back the hands of time, well nigh eighty percent since existence sans mein kampf. Every summer informal conclave regarding congregation of hippies (most of whom found me looking conservative – fully attired) decide upon a locale communicated thru the grapevine. The Rainbow Family Gathering (vast majority opting to shuck clothes) that summer held in Cheoah National Forest just outside Robbinsville western North Carolina, and the farthest south clandestine group congregated. Among the estimated 12, 700 attendees (one of whom included yours truly), more than fifty percent of the sprawling masses contracted the near fatal outbreak of shigellosis. Sanitation in the expansive campsite ranked as poor to non-existent. This absence of proper hygiene provided opportunities thru contaminated food, water and person to person contact. Widespread transmission of the very opportunistic disease caused by Shigella sonnei, resistant to ampicillin, tetracycline, and trimethoprim sulfamethoxazole; the rapacious organism categorized as colicin type 9, and contained a 90-kilobase plasmid, not found in non-contagious related strains. Misery loves company, and this epidemic plagued the infected with unrelenting diarrhea and general lower gastrointestinal debilitation. Unsure how this then late twenty something singular male managed to weather the microbial onslaught, which rendered me prone to a doubled over spate of being lobbed and hamstrung hammering the lower gastrointestinal tract, and incessant severe loss of nutriment vis a vis thru rectal a steady state quintessentially unable to nourish an already slim body. Upon relieving chronic purging from the sphincter muscle, the sensation to expel countless times thereafter explained (not recommended diet) the rapid loss of weight. Whence returning home at that time 724 Level Road, Collegeville, Pennsylvania, 19426, this ghostly appearance of mine immediately alarmed, discerned, and gauged family members to schedule me for immediate medical intervention. After being examined, (what little flesh remained of what resembled a Holocaust Concentration camp victim), the physician could offer no pharmacological remedy. As the days of my life passed under bedside and medical watch of mother, who worked as a licensed practical nurse, yet could do little or nothing to halt her own demise courtesy metastatic carcinoma viz ovarian/uterine cancer approximately seventeen years ago early May 2020.