>>281633300
Yeah, hemorrhoids are definitely pretty livable when they're at bearable levels, but every five or six years mine get to the point where the doctor tells me it's time to get them out. In Japan they keep you in the hospital for days after (which, as an American, is completely insane to me), so it turns into a big ordeal.
After my first hemorrhoidectomy I was initially very entertained by the old guy in the bed across from me, who would spend all day watching TV with his arms crossed and a huge scowl on his face, regularly exclaiming "γγ«γγ«γγοΌ" exactly like Mifune in Red Beard. I agree with him about Japanese TV, so I felt a sense of camaraderie until the day his wife came to visit him and he spent an hour hurling vile abuse at her (his hemorrhoids were all her fault for not taking better care of him for the last forty years, he was sure she was too stupid to properly take care of the house in his absence, etc.). I felt awful.
Just goes to show that characters who could be entertaining in fiction are often extremely shitty in real life.
