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When I was 14 my neighbor's wife had to go to the hospital for a full GI Workup. It is where they give you an enema with barium and then take film of your intestines. It is not pleasant (I've never had it, but know a couple of people who have). So when she gets home she explains to their kids (9,12 and 14 years old) what had happened. The 12 year old boy is fascinated with this whole thing and asks a bunch of questions. Two hours later we are all watching a movie and he has been outside playing. He walks in and says, "Guess what I did?"
Nobody guess so he says, "I gave myself an enema." We all laugh because he is walking funny and we think he is making a joke. Well, it turns out that he wasn't kidding. He went into his dad's tool shed and found a tube of a liquid and gave himself an enema with it. the problem was the tube was an industrial epoxy and it was now drying. He had shot the entire tube up his ass and glued his ass shut!
They took him to the hospital and luckily after a long conversation with poison control they were able to put together a batch of a solvent that would loosen the epoxy. They spent about three hours irrigating his ass with that solvent to make sure they got it all out. Had there been no solvent they would have had to go in and surgically remove it.
I had always thought that kid was a little off because he was prone to doing some dumb stuff, but that day took the cake.
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