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anita514
Gym climber
Great White North
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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 28, 2014 - 12:53pm PT
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drinking milk keeps me regular but not in a good way.
sanskara: where do you live? picky eater eh? I ate the hospital food but just barely. I don't eat meat but didn't make a stink about it. I figure I need protein right now.
I feel a poop coming. wish me luck, y'all
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this just in
climber
north fork
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Mar 28, 2014 - 12:56pm PT
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Pictures Anita to be a true TMI. Good luck.
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skcreidc
Social climber
SD, CA
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Mar 28, 2014 - 12:58pm PT
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Carefull. THat first one can be murder after a hiatus.
Serious ... I hope this works out for you. The leg and the poop. All the best.
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Sanskara
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Mar 28, 2014 - 01:15pm PT
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20 minutes west of Boston.
But I tend to spend 3 days a week living out of my car or at friends homes somewhere between New Paltz and Lyndonville depending on the season.
I would not say I am a picky eater. Probably just more a germaphobe, I'm kinda a clean freak. I can still remember the first time as a kid that I went to a friends house to eat and the inside of the fridge looked like it had not been cleaned in a decade. I then started tAking notice that many people have some pretty nasty sanitary habits. Things have never been the same for me since. I much prefer to just eat at home or out of my own cooler if I can at all help it. I guess I'm kinda quirky as so many of us climbers are. I tend to just think I don't like other people's dirt.
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anita514
Gym climber
Great White North
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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 28, 2014 - 01:26pm PT
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how do you manage if you're out a weekend or week and there's not much running water and stuff?
I get really grossed out using public showers. won't do it unless I have industrial strength flip fops.
other people's dirt is gross. but I can deal with being dirty/not bathing and eating off dirt for a while. everything out in the woods is way cleaner than city living, imo. I like being a dirty bum. I didn't bathe for 6 days in Joshua Tree!
so it was a false alarm.. just a period fart :/
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Sanskara
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Mar 28, 2014 - 01:36pm PT
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I deal the same as you.
I just don't like others people dirt or people whom are not hygienic and or manage their dirt very well. Being dirty in nature feels natural. Having a fridge fool of rotten food or that has not seen a sponge since last year does not seem natural. I'm the type before new food goes in the fridge any old food gets thrown out and the fridge gets a quick wipe. Takes less than 5 minutes!
Actual dirt I don't mind. Or kissing my own dogs I don't mind. But I do tend to give them a bath every other week and brush their teeth once a week. They also never leave my yard so I kinda know where they have and have not been.
It's gross dirt and dirty people or habits I don't like. And yes I know I am a germaphobe. I'll take that over nasty any day lol...
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anita514
Gym climber
Great White North
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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 28, 2014 - 01:47pm PT
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dirty fridges are pretty gross
nothing feels better than a clean fridge and when I scrub my sinks.
I think I'm more of a neat freak than germophobe.
do you carry anti-bacterial stuff in a fanny pack when you climb? ;)
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anita514
Gym climber
Great White North
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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 28, 2014 - 01:53pm PT
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sure
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Sanskara
climber
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Mar 28, 2014 - 01:55pm PT
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I hate that stuff but it's only polite that I disinfect considering I normally poop twice before I even get in a second pitch for the day. I refuse to use the stuff anywhere else though as I think it is adding to antibiotic resistant strains of bacteria so forth and so on. But yes it lives in the brain of my pack in a plastic bag with my T.P. And so e dog poop bags to clean up my mess.
The hike in gets things moving and I dal with it. They normally by the time I am all racked up I either have to poop again. At the very least by the end of the first pitch its normally number three for the day for me.
Oh I got a good poop story give me a minute I gotta go poop first. For real number 4 today and I only got up 4 hours ago...
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Mar 28, 2014 - 02:34pm PT
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hey there say, anita514... oh my... did not realize ALL of what was going on... say, please send me an address for to send you card, etc...
get well soon as you can!
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clinker
Trad climber
Santa Cruz, California
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Mar 28, 2014 - 03:00pm PT
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Turd has been a lovely nickname for my youngest Rachel(now 14).On a trip to Colorado we explored some caves, for the rest of that road trip her name was Guano. She is, at times the ultimate little sh@t, but very loved.
I am the sh#t.
The manure didn't fall far from the ass.
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clinker
Trad climber
Santa Cruz, California
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Mar 28, 2014 - 03:12pm PT
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Anita, try jiffypoop from the "make up a lie..." thread. Dingus deals it.
The scars will heal and recede into obscurity better than you can imagine now. Meanwhile you can tear a new one in this forum. Or write poetry. :)
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Sanskara
climber
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Mar 28, 2014 - 03:22pm PT
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Ok so,
Myself and a couple other buddies took a two week trip to the Canadian rockies last March for some ice climbing. I think it was like 12 days door to door and we climbed 11 days straight. I think the only day we did not climb was the first travel day as we all arrived in Calgary rather late that night.
Anyway it was the last day of our trip and we had just spent the prior four days or so up on the parkway at the Ramart Creek hostel. If you have never been it in the middle of the woods with no running water with minimal electricity generated via solar. If you like to climb ice I suggest you make it a point to visit sometime. Even the germaphobe in me would not pass up another chance to stay in a heartbeat. F*#k I could live up there in that caretakers cabin for the rest of my life and be very very happy never looking back!
Anyway the plan is to hit the Ghost on our way back to Calgary and the airport. So a friend of a friend from back east that made the move to Calgary many years ago agrees to take us into the Ghost on our final day of the trip. Mind you now one in our party has a flight out at like 8pm this same night. None of us have ever been into the Ghost valley and are thinking no big deal easy peezy right. Anyway we get to like mile marker ten on the access road or something like that and just to the bottom of the big hill and we all look at each other. You can tell we are all thinking the same thing. "I think there is a good chance we don't make our flights tonight guys". Shortly after the big hill we run into our first stuck vehicle and now we are really starting to think who had the bright idea to come in here on our last day, we gotta be to the airport in like 12 hrs. So everyone gets out of the car and our gracious host driver and tour guide extraordinaire has the stuck party pulled out lickidy split. The guy was a real pro! Back in the truck and onward we go. So anyway we make it to our destination get out of the truck and start gearing up. We are all all floored at how beautiful and remote this place is. I am thinking I could pitch a tent and just live here all winter. I bet I could arrange for locals to bring me in food and supplies weekly. I am scheming how I can manage never going back home. For real I was and still am. My first thought is what about a climbing partner, I need a partner crazy enough to live out here all winter with me, how am I gonna find one of those? I can't be the only one this ice obsessed that would really do such a thing. I know I'm not nuts really square people just make me seem they way ;)
Anyway so we head for our climb up into this canyon. In typical fashion I stop two or three times and poop. Being the good steward I am I pick up my mess tie it up nice and neat and deposit it into the brain of my pack. We make it to the base of the climb where I proceed to take another poop and deposit it into my pack. Now the brain of my park has like four wag bags full of my crap in it. It's like really full. I am vegan mind you and I not only poop a lot but I tend to take really large really soft poops ;) We rack up and set off on one of the best days ice climbing we all have ever had.
We make it down just in time we should be able to get outa the Ghost and back to Calgary for our buddies flight although its gonna be tight. We rush back out the canyon and to the truck. We throw our bags in the back of our new buddies truck or rather jeep and we are off to the airport. Half way out of the Ghost this I start getting the occasional whiff of something real nasty. I can't quite figure what it is and just chalk it up to three dudes having been ice climbing for eleven days non having had a proper shower in at least five days. We get out of the Ghost and to our own car and transfer the bags to the rental car. We say goodbye to our new friend and off to the airport we go. Again I am sitting in the back and the whole ride back to Calgary I keep getting this strong poop odor but say nothing. I am thinking maybe one of my friends just has a rank ass or does not wipe very well. For real this is what I am thinking and all I could figure. We make it jot the airport just in the knick of time and get our friend on his 8pm return flight to NY.
My other partner and I head back to hotel near the airport. We unload our bags onto one of those luggage carts. It's about this time I am like ok what the f*#k is the nasty f*#king smell. Anyway I am looking for something I think my phone and kinda in a panic. Not think I thinking I open the brain of my climbing pack and just stick my hand in and start reaching around. All the sudden my hand stops moving and is just frozen suspended in time as my brain and hand piece together what that odor I have been getting all day was. Now frozen half panicked in shock grossed out I done out of the fog that is my brain figuring out my hand is covered in my own poop and realize I am standing on the curb I front of what is a decent hotel. I am thinking f*#k I have just planted my hand squarely in a pile of my own sh#t now what do I do. My wag bags had clearly exploded all over the place inside the brain of my pack at some point during the day. The reality of the situation is this is not just little bit of crap I got on my hand. My hand is literally swimming in sh#t inside my pack. My hand is f*#king covered and I am trying to figure what am I gonna do as I stand half way in the car and half way out families passing buy and my partner wondering why I am not helping load the cart all the sudden.
I quietly announce to my partner what has happened. His face drops and simultaneously his lungs ring out with laughter. I am just standing there kinda panicked kinda grossed out, kinda aggravated thinking what the f*#k am I gonna do. If I take my hand out of this bag it is covered in sh#t and I am for the most part standing in a hotel lobby I can't do that. I can't really continue to help and just walk around with my hand in my backpack as it is heavy and full of gear. What the f*#k am I gonna do. Anyway not sure what we did. I imagine my buddy got me a t shirt and I did the best I could to clean up.
So anyway we make our way into the hotel, then to the elevator to like the bazzillionth floor then down a maze of hallways to our room. It is literally the last room at the end of the last hallway where hotel staff stays and or live. This whole while we are laughing hysterically about what had just ensued and complaining about walking so far to our room. We are standing at the door of the room trying to get the card key to work and I say something like "I can't believe that sh#t exploded in my bag". At this very same moment a middle aged woman and her two young kids open the door to the room next to us to leave. They clearly heard exactly what I had just said and we look at each other like a deer caught in headlights. My partner and I nearly fall to the ground laughing basically in their faces as we enter our room.
I proceed to wash the brain of my bag out in the bathtub. Case in point another reason I don't like hotels.
End of story!
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anita514
Gym climber
Great White North
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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 28, 2014 - 03:26pm PT
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funny. and gross! you climbed in the Rockies? impressive.
I had something kinda similar. I had packed my poop out on Mt Whitney and then got severe sun/snow burn and had to hike out on our 2nd day.
the trip was a wash and somehow I forgot about the wag bag until 2 weeks later in my car, in the summer, driving down to Keene from Montreal.
woooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo did it stink! but no explosions at least.
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Big Mike
Trad climber
BC
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Mar 28, 2014 - 03:33pm PT
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No, but I've had sh#t that was hard because my back was cracked!
Ditto on that one sista!
Anita, oxycontin can make you say/ post things you wouldn't have if you were sober.
Lol so true Moose. Been there too.
mmm hospital food
Uggg so gross. I could barely touch the stuff at VGH! Gf Strong was so much better.
This was my comment after my first decent poop post surgery.
"I made a giant softball sized projectile fly out my butt today!! It's amazing how much the little things matter when they are taken from you."
Funny thing about that, is i felt it coming, and rang the nurses. It was my favourite nurse who showed up and because i just couldn't get it to happen in the bedpan they put me on the commode.
By the time they got me settled I had to go bad and it just happened!! I think she got about half the bed pan under there. It was so gross and embarrassing and i apologized
profusely for being such an invalid!!
Pooping secrets:
1. Prune juice, 3 times a day. It's gross, i hate it, but i like pooping!
2. Sushi. It may be runny, but better n nutin!
3. stool softeners
4. Mcdonald's chocolate milk shakes (gold!! This works every time for me!)
5. Green stuff. Edibles are better. Watch the drug interactions!!
Get off the oxy's and try something else. Hydromorph contin worked well for me. Try everything until you find what works for you. You shouldn't be in pain. If u are, be nice but squeaky wheel gets the grease. Get more.
You asked in email what happened to me, this sums it up pretty good:
http://www.supertopo.com/climbers-forum/2079402/Sending-Big-Mike-some-good-vibes
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anita514
Gym climber
Great White North
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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 28, 2014 - 03:38pm PT
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mike: I am in constant pain. it's the swelling.. the oxy's don't do sh#t unless I'm doubled up on both. then I'm totally out of it.
I am taking colase (stool softener) and so far I had mini pellet poops. better than a big brick, but now it;s a couple days without :(
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Big Mike
Trad climber
BC
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Mar 28, 2014 - 03:45pm PT
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mike: I am in constant pain. it's the swelling.. the oxy's don't do sh#t unless I'm doubled up on both. then I'm totally out of it.
Yup. Tell em you wanna try something different. The opiates worked great for me and didn't mess me up mentally.
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Sanskara
climber
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Mar 28, 2014 - 03:51pm PT
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Careful with OxyContin.
It only takes a few days for your body to become dependent. A couple weeks and it it will be legit hard to get off.
Whatever you do do not, I mean "DO NOT" let anyone convince you to take Suboxone for any reason. Be it to get off the pain meds or help with the pain. Detoxing from the sh#t is 100 times worse than OxyContin or any pain med maybe other than propathol or some crazy sh#t like that. It's harder to kick than heroin. Living on the stuff as is often prescribed turns you into a brain dead zombie lacking motivation to even wipe your ass.
For real don't take the pain meds unless you really really need them. Just suffer it out you will be thankful you did once you have to detox. If you stay on them very long the sh#t reality is suffer now or suffer later. I would take the suffer from surgery any day over that of opioid withdrawals!
Good luck...
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anita514
Gym climber
Great White North
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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 28, 2014 - 03:56pm PT
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Can't take anti inflammatories because they inhibit bone growth
So I'm f*#ked
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