I am a very bitter man, this is true and without a doubt. But while I do almost always speak with great spite in my voice or words, there is always the companion of empathy with it. I always had a problem with the shits that I can remember back to being a little kid.
When I was four, my parents had an office down in the basement in the corner. Not too far away from that was the pool table (billiards to us snobs). I remember my older sister of eight years running after me and I would duck under the pool table to escape her grasp for the next torture. I hid under there and then began crying, my mother though my sister had done some harm to me, chased her down and smacked the shit out of her. My mom sent my hysterical sister to her room and came to see what had happened. I was clutching my stomach and holding Henry my faithful plush dog while I sat in my pajamas sobbing away like Nancy Kerrigan.
So here comes my first trip to the emergency room. It turns out I had Gastritis. Which basically means is remember your worst time having to fart real bad and nothing would come out? That was it a pocket of gas was floating in my gutty works like the bubble in some building lever-slide being held by an epileptic architect on a roller coaster.
About 12 years later, I had to get up before the whole school for this Jeopardy bowl competition between the classes. Well, I got a massive trot attack about an hour before that, but was fine. So I could see my nerves had something to do with that. I had no more than 3 or four a year of I really have to go now attacks until Christmas Day 1997.
About two years before this Christmas Day thing, when I worked at UPS, I had a coworker who had a second job delivering mail and packages to post office drops in the NY area from where we lived next to Philly. Loving NYC radio and a chance to get out and about, so I joined him. I brought along half a gallon of Hazel Nut coffee to keep me awake after throwing packages all night before. Well this acted like colon cleaner especially in such large amounts and I wound up having to crap on the side of the Staten Island Expressway. That whole episode is written in some other thread on here already in great detail.
Christmas 1997 was the opening of Jackie Brown by QT. So I had to see it, I liked it and got in my car and drove home to hang with my ever exciting family. Well my as started rumbling and I did a Mad Max style race against traffic to go home and adjudicate the kingdom from the throne. Ever since then I had the trots everyday pretty much.
It is hard to throw packages when you have to go. Best part of the story is I hit a period in which you feel like you have to go and NOTHING will come out. I had to listen to the fucktards that UPS employed as my coworkers tell me it was this or that. Finally I had a scumbag supervisor always follow me in the bathroom and spread rumors of me being a heroin addict. Now I never did any of that shit but I had to go or feel like I had to go. I have an intense fear of needles that has popped up only in the last 12 years or so. I worked the Christmas peak season at Big Brown and survived.
UPS decided to try and fuck me in more sore ass. After peak was done a lot of people are not needed so they ask them if they want to go or stay home. I used to call up and say I was sick on my worst days. They would say no we need you and I would drive in. Get to the clock after spending 25 minutes holding my guts in with one hand, and have a scumbag supervisor say you want to go home. They did this everyday for about six weeks, since they wanted me to quit. There was bad blood from the summer 97 strike still floating through everyone’s veins.
By then I used my generous benefits of insurance to see every ass doctor I could. I had every test done imaginable. I had to take about 8 Amodiums a day just to work for four hours part time. I made it through it all. My spite of those people fueled me like a Space Shuttle. The scumbag union people would fight for any fucktard who loved to drink and drive, not pay their child support, or further their crack habit. All I got is we can do nothing for you. So I kept working as they moved me around. Eventually I got ill with a fever and passed out twice in my package car, I told everyone I was sick and went to the doctor who said stay home. I called work told them this and they said they would fire me if I stayed home. I said whatever I got a doctor’s note. Well I got canned. Best part of the story was I loved it cause 60% of the bullshit problems went away with my ass. I went to collect unemployment and Big Brown tried to fight it. I of course brought in my certified letter regarding my termination and sat around and sucked my unemployment to the bone for 6 months.
I would have flare ups in which I had to use my Cobra insurance to go get an ass doctor to look at me. One guy wanted to take my ulcerated intestines and rip it out. Then stitch my other intestine to my stomach and ass. Making my gutty works the fastest tube ride outside of Disney for food. Bam! A few hours and everything you ate is out of you. Only about 12 times a day for this. I declined especially when he stated that I could have an accident in the operation and require a shit bag for life. He said the best bet was file for permanent disability and live with my parents till they take a pine box vafcation. Wow! How lovely? Should I try and find all the freaks from high school who also lived with their parents basements and continue to play D&D. Perhaps I could make a gang out of these people?
Like the alternate lyrics to Blue Oyster Cult’s song, “Don’t Fear the Ass Doctor”, I learned to live with the shitty hand life dealt me. One day at a time. I don’t mind talking about my ass or showing it to people. In the first 2 years alone I have had about 40 people look at it, including a class of Junior GI doctors as they placed the Hubble Telescope up my ass.
Dude, I know I am a prick but I serve a propose here. I am relating my same experiences of putting shit off and not eating this or that. It isn’t going to fix itself. In the end I needed medical care and fine script drugs to close up my ulcers.
Stop placing worry about your health like a kook and bleed from the ass everyday on your to do list. Instead take command of your list and place a doctor’s appointment and freedom from your self-induced paranoia. You’ll feel better. Take baby steps if you have to but get it done.
I have seen no one offer the advice of sit home and do nothing. So get off your bloody Bum and go NOW!
PS: To all the sick people amused by my previous rant: I am doing three shows next weekend in Atlantic City. So please come and out and support a fellow Thunder’s Place member. Please tip the hardworking waitress and barmaids at the show too, They need your support plus I am probably boning them all.
Love
Twatty