My Killer Colon

  • Four Stroke Colon. Pt. 1

    My year long battle with UC is not the first time my colon has made an attempt on my life. In 2016, the intestinal insurgent waged a campaign of  shock and awe that affects me to this day. It was early November, just a few days after my fiftieth birthday in October. I had been…

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  • Hell Bound.

    It looks like I am going to be released from the hospital today. I can’t say that I’m thrilled. The best case scenario is I end up slinking back to my shithole room at the shelter, but I have been away for over two weeks now and I may no longer even have that. There…

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  • Inflixable.

    Even as I write, I am hooked up to an IV, which is pumping me full of Infliximab. It’s an Immunosuppressive drug which is used to treat Ulcerative Colitis, like I have, and a bunch of other conditions like Crohn’s disease and rheumatoid arthritis. So here I lay in my far too comfortable hospital bed,…

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  • Wrecktum.

    So, I wake up this morning to this. Yeah, that last one. I had no idea what a “Tap” enema was, so I Googled it. It simply means tap water enema. I have to say I feel a bit slighted. Here I am, an in patient at a major metro hospital, and when the doctors…

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  • Four Stroke Colon Pt. 2

    My next memory is that of a doctor standing over me as I lay in bed. He tells me I am on a ventilator, and to let the machine breathe for me until he can get the tube out of my trachea. After pulling the tube, he told me not to speak and then began…

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  • The Real UC.

    Today is my twelfth day as an inpatient at Trinitas hospital, in beautiful downtown Elizabeth, New Jersey. I checked myself into the ER almost two weeks ago when I had become so dehydrated and weak from relentless diarrhea, that I honestly wasn’t sure I could make the three block walk to get here. I was…

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