Thanks Chris... I may have been a couple days within death if I didn't go in...
I normally wouldn't have called 911 for help or seen a doctor, but my friend Doug told me that dark stools could mean internal bleeding...
I had corn for lunch on Monday and then went over to his house to hang out for the holiday... He made some of his famous ribs and I had some... Then the next day I pooped light brown with corn, then the next poop was dark... It stayed dark all week...
I went to the bar on Thur with my son for our weekly father-son quality time and while we were at the bar, Doug walked in with his neighbor... I started giving Doug a hard time asking what he put in the ribs because my stool was black since then.... He told me that dark stool could mean internal bleeding... In this case that was exactly what happened...
If it wasn't for Doug telling me that, I may have just figured I was still dehydrated like the first hospital said and just gulped a couple glasses of water and gone back to sleep instead of calling 911...
That encounter at the bar most likely saved my life....
