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Sunday, December 29, 2013

Off the Chart

 
            If you find the humor in this like I do, then you're certainly my friend. I have two butt doctors, a gastroenterologist and a colorectal specialist. It's completely normal to find charts on the walls like the one below. I call my gastro my poop therapist because I sit on the doctor's table and tell the doctor how my bowels have been. My colorectal specialist just has me fill out paperwork on how my poop has been, and then pulls out the scope to get a look up the ass that produces off the chart crap. This chart is to help me accurately describe my stool to the doctor. Though honestly, I have seen more disgusting things that don't even begin to match the chart in the toilet water before I flush. Hence, off the chart crap. If this is weird for you, be thankful you don't have to deal with stool scales and charts. It was weird for me at first too.  

 
 
 
             Whenever I go to see my P.A., it's always a little odd that he doesn't require too many details about my bowels. Since I see my butt doctors more frequently than I see the P.A. I think I naturally tell him more about my bowels than he wants to know.  The picture below was taped to the cabinet in the room I waited in for my P.A. At first glance I thought it was an off the chart stool scale! Finally, I thought they were beginning to understand that not all of their patients' bowel movements are as nice as the Bristol Stool Scale. Only to read and find out that it's actually skin cancer on the chart, not stool. I told my P.A. and he said he'll never look at skin cancer the same way again and he said that I'm at the wrong doctor for that kind of wall art.