Hey.... Bodine here. For the record- I am middle eastern (well, half) and I WASN'T constipated. That was Alex Wong, fer chrissake. I twisted my ankle. No ice cream spoon was ever stuck up my ass, thank god. Alex was the guy that could-and did- go a month without shitting occasionally. But that's funny- I appreciate your retrospective concern for the safety of my ass....
I think the longest I went at RMA without shitting was when I first got there... about fourteen days. For some reason I still have this free-form association with the two man saw. I would go down to the wood corral in the morning, and as we were being checked out for tools, I would notice one of the no-longer-used two man saw blades that was displayed over the toolshed doorway, and for some reason, that would always remind me that I had not yet taken a shit since I got there. I'd see it, and I'd say to myself "Aw man, I still haven't taken a shit." So in the few times since then it has gotten to that point (normally after some sort of surgery where I am on painkillers) I always see that fucking saw in my mind.
And as for the worst injury I ever saw during my time, that was easily D., one of my peer groupies. He broke his fucking neck by falling into a shallow spot in the pond. Probably the only time I ever saw an ambulance on campus. He had to be fitted with a halo and everything and was gone from the school for months. The one good thing that came out of that was that he was fortunate enough to miss the summit.
The one big thing I recall about it was that his parents' insurance refused to cover it with the surgeon they wanted to use, who was probably the best of the best, from what I remember, so they had to pay out of pocket. Fucking insurance companies.
He had to about as close to a complete recovery as you can have regarding that. He's fully ambulatory. He actually got in touch with me not too long ago, and is quite successful.
