Nil by mouth....
It was just over a year ago and yours truly was in Hospital, having had major major abdominal surgery. For four days before my operation I'd been nil by mouth, waiting for a surgery slot to come up. Well I say nil by mouth, all I'd had was tons of liquid morphine for four days.
The day after my surgery they thought it was time I ate something. Hospital menus are not particularly inspiring but I thought that a plain piece of chicken breast would not be too taxing for my poor, butchered insides.
My stomach thought otherwise. I projectile vomited the chicken (and something bright lime green) all across the floor of the ward. It was the worst vomit ever as far as I was concerned as it's pretty nasty to have your stomach muscles violently expelling the contents of your gut when it's only two days since you were sliced open from sternum to pubis and all said muscles have been cut through and then stapled back together. I think even the nurses were impressed that I got chicken and bile in a 10-foot arc of the floor, wall and drip stand.
It fucking hurt doing it though.
( Sallyrsm, Sat 9 Jan 2010, 14:59, Reply)