Has anyone heard of or had an experience such as this:
(I am fast forwarding much of this info for the sake of brevity and to get to the point)
Having had diarrhea for a week, I noticed a very small amount of blood in my stool. I was put into the hospital for what was supposed to the weekend. Seven months later, I was finally released from hospital, absent my large intestine and at a weight of 125 pounds vs 195 when I entered. In a 3-4 week period I had gone from those few spots of blood to passing (with absolutely no exaggeration) to passing pure blood. Within 5 weeks of admission to the hospital I was experiencing Toxic Megacolon and having surgery to just save my ilfe. The entire large intestine was a bloody mass that had to be removed. No area was not bleeding profusely.
i am trying to find out if anybody has experienced or heard of such an experience. In all of my research, I cannot find such a sudden and catastophic episode. I guess I should mention that I was in the infantry in I Corp in Vietnam in 1968. I wasn't going to muddy the waters originally by mentioning that but then I thought there might possibly be another grunt out there with the same problem. I really hope nobody had that happen but .."misery loves company" may apply here.
(I am fast forwarding much of this info for the sake of brevity and to get to the point)
Having had diarrhea for a week, I noticed a very small amount of blood in my stool. I was put into the hospital for what was supposed to the weekend. Seven months later, I was finally released from hospital, absent my large intestine and at a weight of 125 pounds vs 195 when I entered. In a 3-4 week period I had gone from those few spots of blood to passing (with absolutely no exaggeration) to passing pure blood. Within 5 weeks of admission to the hospital I was experiencing Toxic Megacolon and having surgery to just save my ilfe. The entire large intestine was a bloody mass that had to be removed. No area was not bleeding profusely.
i am trying to find out if anybody has experienced or heard of such an experience. In all of my research, I cannot find such a sudden and catastophic episode. I guess I should mention that I was in the infantry in I Corp in Vietnam in 1968. I wasn't going to muddy the waters originally by mentioning that but then I thought there might possibly be another grunt out there with the same problem. I really hope nobody had that happen but .."misery loves company" may apply here.
