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The Defacography or Humiliation on High

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Rhowan

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About 6yrs ago, my colon died. Kaput! Gave up the ghost. I was left drinking that nasty crap they make you drink before you have a colonoscopy - but I drank it every day just to go once a week so...

 

My Gastroenterologist was debating on having my colon removed but he decided I needed one more test before the decision was made. The only thing I was told about this test is that it was called a defacography and that it measured my rectal floor pressure - or in laymans terms, how well the shit went down the chute. Thus the term Defacography - a study of defacating - little did I know....

 

I arrived at the hospital for my test - very happy that, for once, this test didn't involve drinking vile tasting barium enhanced with Hershey's Quick to make it more palatable -ha! like you can disguise the taste of barium - hello?!

 

I am called for my test and follow the nurse through a hallway draped with plastic and tools all over the place (my hospital was having remodling and construction done) I enter a room that has an xray bed that is upright so you can stand in front of it. I am perplexed to see that there is a 5gallon bucket with a platstic liner in it, and a toilet seat on top of it, in front of the upright xray table.

 

I change into a lovely hosptial gown, complete with peek-a-boo rear, and I am asked to go sit on the make shift toilet while they take an xray. WTF? I am told it will show my rectal floor at rest. - okay, so that wasn't so bad.....

 

The xray table was then laid flat and I was asked to lay with my butt facing the doc. He lifts up my gown, exposing my blushing cheeks, and places and round metal piece on my butthole. I am then asked to stand up and squeeze my cheeks together so I don't loose said metal marker while they put the xray table back to horizontal and place makeshift toilet in front of table. I am asked to sit on the toilet thing (all the while keeping the metal thing in place) and they take another xray. At this point, I am thinking to myself, this is pretty ugly, I hope this is the end of the test. Ha! And it gets worse....

 

The xray table is once again laid flat, I am told to lay down on top of it. The doctor removes the marker. He goes off to get something, and I see him moving the construction worker"s tools out of his way. As he rummages around, I he picks up a calking gun and starts heading in my direction. OMG - the caulking gun is meant for me?! I thought it was part of all the construction but find out that it is one of the defacography dept. tools - I kid you not!

 

The doctor places a rubber hose on the end of the caulking gun, and in the slot that a tube of caulking material goes? He puts a tube of barium. He tells me to relax (ha! sure!) and he puts the tube up my butt and starts to "caulk" barium up my ass. I am thouroughly disgusted - How much worse can it get? Let me tell you, never ask that question, because, things can definitely get worse!!!!

 

So, my butt is full of barium and I am once again asked to get off the xray table while they once again place it upright with that damnable makeshift toilet in front. I am asked to sit on it and told - hold it hold it! and then, they start to raise the toilet thing with a remote control and..... drumroll please... for the finale....

 

The toilet thing I am sitting on is raised into the air. Yep, I am sitting there,barium caulked up my ass, on a stupid 5 gallon bucket with toilet seat attatched and I am about 5 feet in the air - and if that isn't humiliating enough.... an xray video camera is placed on the side of me, aimed at my poop chute. The doctor is standing in front of me - my knees are eye height to him (OMG can I just die now?!) and with video xray camera rolling, I am told to poop out the barium!!!!

 

Can I just say "OMFGWTHFBBQ?"

 

Poop out the barium, 5 feet up in the air, xray video cam rolling, my knees eye height with doc and technicians walking around the room? I am thinking to myself, "what kind of sick f*ck goes into this type of medical specialty? " and then I think to myself....

 

"I need to get a copy of this tape! I could sell it on a porn site for quite a bit of $$ to some weird freak who would probably get off watching an xray video of me pooping out barium." Hey! it's not like my face would be showing or anything!

 

Anyhow, I can't stop the stuff coming out of my butt - how much freaking barium did he caulk up there ? This is SICK and WRONG!!!!

 

Finally, the deed is done and I wash up, get dressed and leave -face red with embarassment....

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I'm so sorry! I feel so bad about laughing about something so serious. But holy shit is that surreal! Imagining it in my head had you spinning like a disco ball with flashy lights and everything.

 

I agree, that procedure is wrong on so many levels and seems made with sadistic intentions :hug:

 

I hope you survived and that they got what they needed so you never ever have to do that again.

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I'm so sorry! I feel so bad about laughing about something so serious. But holy shit is that surreal! Imagining it in my head had you spinning like a disco ball with flashy lights and everything.

>snip<

 

 

Disco ball! that is soooo funny! :hug:

 

 

I don't know if they even do the test any more - this happened years ago - but it almost seems like a form of torture instead of a test. I always wonder about the people who went thru it who weren't as strong as me. I mean, my reaction is to make fun and laugh about hardships, but what about an elderly person who was brought up in an era where you didn't even get undressed in front of your husband let alone crap in front of an audience....

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I'm with you on both counts... doctors who choose this as a specialty are seriously messed up, and you could probably make a lot of money on the Internet with that video.

 

I think they probably find it works better when they don't tell the patient what she can expect before arriving for that test.

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Wow, I feel bad about how much I laughed at that!

 

 

If it makes you feel better, I once had to collect my erm..feces..for 72hr. Every day, I had to drop the little plastic cubby with the biohazard sticker at the lab. The staff was so nice, but how could I not feel totally mortified to hand over a cooler with poo in it?

 

(Yup...had to be refrigerated. Blech)

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