Co-codamol Cannon Ball
The worst poop of my life was when I had my tonsils taken out at the age of 28. The doctor said the recovery from this operation gets worse as people get older, and the doctor wasn’t wrong! I was told to take co-codamol and ibuprofen. Seriously not good after tonsil extraction! The co-codamol had me really spaced out and often sleeping in little shifts. I woke up roughly when it was time for more meds. I got myself into a nice little routine: Take meds, put film on, fall asleep for a little bit, then wake up for next med time, eat lots of toast, and repeat. I was so spaced that it took six days to realize that I hadn’t had a poo.
It was the contractions that first got my attention. I didn’t even need to poo but my bowel was trying anyway, and it was secreting some kind of mucus that kept leaking from my anus. I was back and forth from the throne with no success, and I got worried, so I Googled my symptoms. Trapped wind didn’t seem too bad, and I tried a lot of suggestions to expel said wind… to no avail. But I needed to know how bad my situation was, so…
I sat on the toilet and put a finger in there, just to see, and I felt something very solid. I checked co-codamol side effects online, and I discovered that constipation is very likely. I had my answer. Or so I thought.
I went back to the bathroom and tried to squeeze the thing out without any success for an hour and 40 minute. Then, I had an idea; I filled my bathroom cup/toothbrush holder with hot water and splashed myself in the hope of some kind of lubrication. After another 20 minutes, I considered running the bath for a water birth. It was four a.m., though, so I thought, “No, I’ll just push this thing out of me with all of my might.”
I tried my hardest, my whole body straining. I must have turned purple but I finally felt a movement. Unfortunately, I could also taste blood. The place where my tonsils had once been had erupted under the pressure. I sat there, spitting blood into the sink to my left, while an absolute cannon ball felt like it was slowly splitting me in half at the rear. After I finally passed it the first thing I did, even before I wiped, was to Google bleeding tonsils. Under instruction, I gargled with ice water until the bleeding stopped. I then went back to the toilet and tended to my aching a-hole.
I tried to flush, but there was no chance of that thing disappearing. I had to get in there and break it up with a Charlie Chaplin-style cane that I bought for a fancy dress party. I wish I still had my tonsil; any infection in there would be far more preferable to the ordeal that I went through – passing the worst poop of my life!