Where the Sun doth not Shine

[Michael Eisenstadt]

Byron,

Have you considered repatriation?

My friend Bob Charles (deceased) told of returning
to 'Merica after 5 years in Greece where he had
had lowgrade digestive problems for a long time.

They swung his VW bug off the freighter in New
Orleans, he fired it up and drove on down the road.
Seeing a Howard Johnson's he pulled in and had
some Howard Johnson food not specified.

He claimed that it effected an instant cure of his
digestive malaise. I knew him for years and he
never complained about his digestion. We ate
the same diet up and down the drag and elsewhere
(we even ate at the Plantation House) so I would
have known.

Of course Bob liked to tell a good story so YMMV.
On the other hand, you may have been eating a third
world diet for too long. That was Bob's point.

Hope this helps.

Mike







----- Original Message -----
From: Byron Black
To: austin-ghetto-list@pairlist.net
Sent: Wednesday, June 02, 2004 6:04 PM
Subject: Where the Sun doth not Shine


While I'm not obsessed with health issues or living particularly purely (I
like my cheap cigars and occasional margarita) I have been vegetarian
(rather, fishy-tarian) since 1968 and am normally cautious about what I
imbibe. Over the past couple of years have had peculiar ups and downs in
body weight which is somewhat unnerving -- from a standard (forever) 70kg.
or so up to 78kg. which is uncomfortable since I have my clothes custom-cut
for me, and tight (I know, unfashionable). Then when I tried to cut back on
the eats I went down, rather suddenly, to 70kg.

The latest fierce monkey bite (26 stitches in lower left calf) had me on
super-killer antibiotics, which took away appetite and made me vomit at the
slightest provocation. Down to 66kg. No bueno.

Now I'm up to 68 and feel pretty steady (leg also healing, if slowly).

The reason for this dreary preamble is to ask whether any other Wreckers
(better than 'Ghettoites', no?) are doing enemas as a habit.

I started rinsing out my nether realms about two years ago, since toilets
here customarily have squirting hoses, and I found that they usually carry
enough pressure to allow the lower colon to get a good rinse, and the last
little bits of waste to get flushed out.

I wonder whether there is a downside to enemas -- anybody have any
experience? I like the concept of cleaning out the chute (just as I abhor
toilet paper -- what a cockeyed, nasty, troublesome invention that is!), and
would think that it would be particularly useful for constipation. I have
the opposite condition, unfortunately, a not uncommon occurrence in crowded
third-world urban environments, alas.

Sorry to get so nasty but  we do share our health concerns, right?

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