From May: When Poop Falls Out of Your Bum

So today, Emil used up the last of a roll of toilet paper and then told me he had gotten some poop on his bedsheets afterwards.

“It just fell out of my bum before I even started wiping my bum three times,” he told me, explaining why he had used so much asswipe and yet still not enough.

I was exasperated. He’s 26 and I’m still cleaning up after him? Not really; he cleaned the poop off the floor, or his long underwear I guess (as that’s what I washed, along with the bedsheet), himself. But I mean he is still getting shit anywhere but in the toilet!

After gagging vehemently at the mere thought of going into the bathroom and having to clean up shit, I asked him:

And how does poop “fall out of” your bum?

And finally figured out that he has diarrhea.

I’m happy to report that he is coughing and blowing his nose less today than he was yesterday, so is on the mend.