Cardinal George
I haven't put an update on Cardinal George in here for some time. Over the weekend, he developed blood in his - ahem - stool. This scared the doctors very much; he authorized them finally to tell the public that they used a segment of bowel as a urinary-bladder replacement of sorts, and they wanted to check the connections in his bowels to make sure there were no leaking blood vessels. When they took a flexible sigmoidoscope ("flexible sig" in medical slang) to the appropriate section of bowel,... Sign in to see full entry.