Oh God

The Washington Post reports on something that may not be quite as horrible as Brainerd diahrrea, but it's a close second. Apparently a mystery bug has been inflicting god-awful stomach illnesses on otherwise healthy people.

First came stomach cramps, which left Christina Shultz doubled over and weeping in pain. Then came nausea and fatigue -- so overwhelming she couldn't get out of bed for days. Just when she thought things couldn't get worse, the nastiest diarrhea of her life hit -- repeatedly forcing her into the hospital.

Doctors finally discovered that the 35-year-old Hilliard, Ohio, woman had an intestinal bug that used to be found almost exclusively among older, sicker patients in hospitals and was usually easily cured with a dose of antibiotics. But after months of treatment, Shultz is still incapacitated.

Really, I wouldn't have gone to the trouble to blog about this except for what I read here:

Some resort to having their colon removed to end the debilitating diarrhea.

!!!!??? I didn't even know it was possible to have diarrhea so bad that having your colon removed becomes a feasible option. All I'm saying is that if I anyone can ever refer to my diarrhea as the "nastiest diarrhea of his life", I'm ending it all with a bullet to the brain.