Erminia Passannanti wrote:
> if the belly assumes the egg-shape shown in the photo resembling
> a woman's pregnancy, since it could be not only the sign of an "ascite"
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I had near-fatal hepatitis around '84 (the doctor afterwards told me that I had
been "dying"): went into coma, bleeding from nose and mouth, gangrene so
intense that my fingernails and cuticles, which remained white, looked like
mother-of-pearl. And there were 40 lb. of fluid trapped in my abdomen: acites,
as Erminia says.
It's a very late-stage progression in severe illness and difficult to reverse.
The doctors tried emetics on me, they were so desperate they removed the ~salt~
from all my hospital food. Nothing was working.
Suddenly, it began to break and I began passing {blush} fluid at 7 to 9 lb. a
day. The doctor had the scales dragged in every morning, and said: "If the
scales can be believed!"
A little nurse from the Caribbean danced at the foot of my bed, waving her
hands in the air: "Don't you understand!? When you came in here . . . And now
. . . ! It's a MIRACLE."
