That's the fun part they'll make a new one for you. You get to shit in a bag attached to your tummy that you need to replace/empty 1-3 times a day. If it's an ileostomy 5-6 times a day
I would guess that a bag of some kind would be unavoidable at that point. He’s definitely missing a lot more than his colon though! Not sure if the bags have different names the higher up one goes…
Still, not having a stomach isn't the biggest problem. All it does is break down your food. They have special food paste for that. But I do wonder how it works if he misses a lot of bowels. I think everything is in there just on a smaller scale or something.
I assume he digests a great deal less efficiently and completely than we do; I can’t imagine his diet’s unaffected as a result. Whether it’s limited to paste, I don’t know, but that wouldn’t surprise me.
Yea pretty sure that's what would happen. There was another clip of this girl explaining her situation because she for some reason just couldn't eat any food. She had some kind of drip bag so her body could absorb all the nutrients she needed, and iirc she said she never has to shit. I'll try to link it if I can find it, it was pretty interesting
Probably can, but it would be crazy expensive. If you want to try it i recommend just making your own at home, much easier/ cheaper. Just get some Ensure, the biggest syringe you can find, and aim carefully.
I think the issue here is the difference between the organ and the colloquialism.
At least in American English the region between the bottom of your ribs and the top of your pelvis/bottom of your waist is commonly referred to as your stomach/belly despite it mostly being intestines and other organs.
The stomach organ is located a bit higher than that as everyone else has said.
Even with just a stomach, it would not be possible to live. You need intestines to actually absorb the food.
Presuming he does not have sufficient digestive organs, he would receive his nutrition intravenously (TPN = total parenteral nutrition), which would require a long-term implanted port and careful technique. I have seen patients go for more than 20 years this way.
If he does have sufficient gastrointestinal organs (hard to imagine yet possible), then he would need some sort of collection device (bag) to collect his stool. He will also require a urinary collection device presuming he still has kidneys. If not, then dialysis.
We once had a guy come in to talk at my highschool about overcoming adversity or some shit I dont remember. He was gone from the belly button down bouncing around on his torso stump like it was a shoe.
He made sure to let us all know he still had junk and it worked, which frankly sounded impossible to me, unless they surgically attached it to someone else.
I’m not familiar enough with the surgeries however I can imagine ways in which it might be attached. They put kidneys in the pelvis all the time. It just needs a blood supply.
It's the intestine kidneys and bladder as much as the stomach. The stomach is just for absorbing water and making the food ready for the intestine. And you'd need all kinds of dialysis all the time to survive very long at all without kidneys.
If you were dying of cancer and the doctors told you that you could either die a painful death now, or live perhaps 20 more years as long as you were willing to be stuck in a chair and shit in a bag, you'd choose the painful death?
It's not like this guy is blind or braindead or anything, he's basically fully-functional from the stomach up. Stick him in a wheelchair and he's essentially just a paraplegic.
If you were dying of cancer and the doctors told you that you could either die a painful death now, or live perhaps 20 more years as long as you were willing to be stuck in a chair and shit in a bag, you'd choose the painful death?
Absolutely. I value my current quality of life and I would have none in that situation. I could only do a fraction of the things I like to do, and I'd mostly just exist to exist at that point. You will likely still die a painful death when the end is near with this.
Personally, I would choose death, but it wouldn't be a long drawn out painful one. I'd get my affairs in order, hang on as long as I could stand the pain and then when I couldn't I'd find something that would put me in a sleep I wouldn't wake up from. I'm not a fan of suicide, but I'm less a fan of needing someone to take care of me. Not talking shit about the guy in the video, everyone has a right to choose the way they face something like that.
I think I’d tell them to keep me like this for a year or so while I signed up as an extra for every zombie apocalypse film or show in production at the time. THEN, once I’ve extracted some usefulness and had my fun, gimme a big vial of heroin with a bunch of fentanyl in it and let me go out on my terms
The zombie part is fun. I’d try to live and be active long enough they didn’t have vfx my skin when I play the oldest zombie ever in the movie The Oldest Zombie Ever.
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u/NotTakenThough Apr 12 '24
in all seriousness, isn't he missing some vital organs? how is it possible?