Nama-stay

Big surgery, long hospital stay.
Constipation hits, and he counters with poop jokes (and our MiraLax).
Then day 5 with pain, straining, frustration.
“Help me poop, doc!”
He goes for a walk outside
and finds a group doing yoga on the grass.
He joins. Hospital gown flowing in the breeze.
“Yoga helped me poop, doc!”

Mariah Richins, MD


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