So the other day this young girl came in and she was just obviously uncomfortable. She felt horrible and just seemed to be feeling awful. Dr. Faile felt her stomach and asked her to lay on the table. He turned to me and said, "This ought to be interesting." I felt her stomach and thought "Oh no, is that her spleen that large" thinking some kind of splenatomegaly, then I felt all the bumps and thought, "Oh no, this girl has cancer and this is a huge tumor in her abdomen." Luckily it was not nearly that serious. What this girl had was a serious case of constipation. She had eaten a TON of these seeds that are pictured above and here colon was so packed and backed up that you could feel them in her abdomen with very little effort. Imagine that. Dr. Faile got as many out by hand (Yum...) as he could, but the girl should be okay after a few enemas and some super poopin'. Just another day in the clinic.
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