MyPoopisGreen

So let’s be real here.  Why is the name of this blog, mypoopisgreen?  It’s due to a lovely experience with a patient the other day - now I’ll grant you the patient had a legitimate concern; at first.  But after calling 3 days in a row following her procedure it was getting to be a bit much.  And the questions were the same ones, over and over and over and over and over…again.

The information that I got out of her  was that her stomach hurt, she had discomfort, she was taking her Prilosec (although according to the doctor she wasn’t), she takes aspirin, and she would cut back on eating acidic foods.  At least I think so.  There was a language barrier, and while I’m sure she had a hard time understanding me, I talked to her for 45 minutes the first day and 30 minutes the following two days.

The last time I heard from her this message is what greeted my ears - “Hello, it’s me again, my poop is green!”  I was thinking, well, you probably took your iron pills - “I haven’t taken my iron pill since Saturday, and my poop is dark green.”  - What have you ate?  Would be my next thought, but all she could go on about was the fact that her discomfort was a bit better, she was taking her Prilosec, and she hadn’t taken her iron since Saturday.  Well who am I to argue with the discomfort being better?!?  I wasn’t pushing it.  Green stool is not overly concerning.  Although I guess a BIG question I’m wondering, and have wondered it for a LONG time is…Who looks at their poop that closely?!?

If you are having a hard time, if you happen to glance down and see something odd, or even if there is some blood on the toilet tissue I would grant you a peek.  But WHY are you looking at it so closely?  Why are you playing around with it?  It’s like your mother always tells you - don’t touch it, you don’t know where it’s been!  And while in this case you do,  just leave it alone!  It’s okay.  Somehow you’ll survive.  The body is an amazing thing!  It takes care of it’s problems for the most part, and it tells you when you need to go do something.  Staring at your bowel movements isn’t going to help you out much.

So that’s my little rant for tonight.  I know that I said in the last entry that we would talk about Abdominal Pain - so maybe next time.  Otherwise, we’ll talk about something as equally entertaining.  That much I promise you.

Take care all!  And don’t obsess!:)

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