Constipation

I never realized how debilitating constipation could be.

I thought it was just a problem of not shitting for a few days.

What's far worse is when your body still, against your will, wants to expel its waste. But now it feels like the waste is a compact solid mass 5 times wider than the straw hole it's supposed to push through, and with little glass shards and pebbles buried within it. Is there anything less dignifying than squirming, shouting, crying on the toilet seat for two hours in the middle of the night in order to eject a little ball of shit the size of a mouse pellet?

I'm surprised the neighbors have not come by this morning to ask "what the @#$%?!"

There's a mad woman haunting their building.