Feeling Bad? Take a Poop

     I started this post about 2 weeks ago, thinking it was just about some odd advice my mother-in-law (Marg) gave to her kids but just the other day I saw a Facebook post from little kid to the teacher that was sick.  The advice given the teacher was "Take a Poop".  It was then I realized that, many parents must give this advice.

     This was Marg's advice to her young kids when they complained about an ailment.  Now this is sage medical advice for some intestinal problems but not be the be all end all to medical cures for all ailments.  I know being regular is important to your overall health butt this has never been my problem.

     Kids will complain about many things so I'm sure this solved many lame complaints from her kids.  I can almost here her now as one of her children complain about feeling bad.  Marg would say

"Take a Poop and get dressed for school, the bus will be here in 10 minutes."  I'm sure this medical advice squelched many made up illnesses from her 4 young children but it was not a remedy for all medical problems.

     Recently I injured me knee, which makes other parts of your body compensate for a limp, which in turn causes other muscles and joints to hurt.  It's a domino effect.  Now, I know that Marg's advice does not sound like logical advice to solve a knee problem but I always look for simplest solution and "Take a Poop" would be a simple solution.  So when I went to my orthopedic specialists and he told me I had arthritis in my knee.  I secretly hoped his medical advice to cure my problem would be "Jim just Take a Poop and it will be all better" but sadly it was not.

     So this advice does not work in all cases which I'm sure Marg realized when one of her kids came in with their leg or arm bent 180 degrees off, that her normal medical advice would not apply.  In thinking about this advice it came to me that this may have bigger impact on the world than one might think.   In today's world we hear stories daily about terrorist attacks throughout the world so I'm thinking these guys/gals have issues and maybe, just maybe they are all bound up, which might explain their irritable nature.  So my advice to these terrorist is you'll feel better if you "Take a Poop".  “Just Saying….”