I’ve got an umbilical hernia. I probably have had since my gallbladder surgery in 1992 but recently it’s become an issue. I woke up a couple of Saturdays ago with an egg sized alien trying to escape my belly.
Eww.
Apparently it’s not that big of a deal but there is a definite eww factor. My surgeon took a look at it and suggested we wait until I’ve lost more weight and then we can deal with two things at once. In the meantime, when my alien tries to escape, I get to push him back into my belly.
Pop!
He makes a tiny little pop sound. That’s another part of the eww factor. Eww alien tries to escape. Eww pop him back in.
Apparently my alien can become a serious problem that could require emergency surgery. That’s kind of a special eww of it’s own, isn’t it? But as long as he goes Pop! back inside, he’s no problem. Well, except for the eww part.
I’ve come to the conclusion that the writer of Alien must have had an umbilical hernia. Can’t you just imagine shoving the Alien back inside when it tried to eat through your stomach?
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eep, just be careful when pushing it back in and stuff, don’t want to cause twists and stuff.
(Remember when a major eww was discovering our first gray hairs?)
How long do you think it will be before you can get the surgical repair, Zazzy?
I’m not sure I ever said eww to gray hair. My language was probably a little more colorful – but then I started going gray at 16.
As for repairs, it depends on how fast I lose the remaining weight I want to lose and/or whether the alien becomes a bigger problem.
And the pushing back in isn’t bad, TDW. It’s the “it can’t be pushed back in” that’s the potential problem. Yikes and Eww.