Shortly after Christopher Reeve’s 1995 horse-riding accident, Robin Williams — his very best friend in life — visited him in the hospital. Wearing surgical scrubs and speaking in a thick, comedic Russian accent, Williams barged into the room pretending to be a proctologist, stating that he was there “to perform an immediate rectal exam.” Reeve could only burst into laughter. He later admitted that it was the first time since his accident that he had been able to laugh again, and that Robin had saved his life by showing that he could still find joy. (When Christopher later died in 2004, Williams referred to Christopher as “his brother,” and stated that part of his heart was gone đ) And I know this isn’t a proof at all that Christopher Reeve was a nice guy in real life, although many a person would NOT have laughed in his situation. On the other hand, I couldn’t find any dirt on Reeve — which is rather exceptional if you think about it. So to answer your question once and for all:...
Diverticulosis refers to having little dents or pockets called diverticuli in the lining of your intestinal walls. By themselves I think having a few small ones is seen as relatively normal and don’t usually cause symptoms. But if you have a lot of them it’s more possible that food will get stuck in them and cause problems or maybe even that they could rupture in some fashion.
Here’s what they look like in a little selfie I took after swallowing a camera (Ok, ok, so I did NOT swallow a camera! This is a shot from a routine colonoscopy I had about 10 years ago!):
Kind of looks like Andy Kapp lookin’ out at ya, eh? :> Or a little Pac Man that I swallowed!
In any event, there are two of my diverticuli. They usually caused me no problem EXCEPT… as I figured out later… when I’d eat corn on the cob too fast without proper chewing! The kernals must have been the perfect size to lodge into those little dents, and a day or so after eating I would get extreme knifelike pains in my abdominal region. Since I wasn’t a big regular corncob chomper I’d never connected the pains to it until after seeing this pic and realizing what COULD be causing it! I experimented a bit, and, yep, corn on the cob, probably due to poor chewing, was the culprit.
Been avoiding or carefully chewing corn on the cob ever since with NO more pains!
Soooo… Diverticulosis is LOTS of those little dents, and a greatly incresed chance of problems due to their number!
- MJM, an internally photogenic fella…
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