{"id":698,"date":"2006-01-11T18:04:22","date_gmt":"2006-01-11T22:04:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dbnews\/2006\/01\/11\/dowbrigade-pukes-own-guts-out\/"},"modified":"2006-01-11T18:04:22","modified_gmt":"2006-01-11T22:04:22","slug":"dowbrigade-pukes-own-guts-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2006\/01\/11\/dowbrigade-pukes-own-guts-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Dowbrigade Pukes Own Guts Out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a7814'><\/a><\/p>\n<table width=\"537\" border=\"0\">\n<tr>\n<td height=\"331\">\n<p align=\"justify\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/dowbrigade\/stomach.jpg\" width=\"277\" height=\"207\" align=\"left\">Contrary<br \/>\n        to rumors swirling around the blogosphere, the Dowbrigade has not been<br \/>\n        kidnapped (<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/stories\/storyReader$2195\">again<\/a>) by Peruvian<br \/>\n        terrorists, snatched by Colombian drug mafias or disappeared into the<br \/>\n        secret CIA Black Gulag while investigating military recruiting of Latin<br \/>\n        gunsels for Middle Eastern cannon fodder.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">The truth, unfortunately, is both more mundane and nastier.<br \/>\n        In the first major medical crisis of our long career, the Dowbrigade<br \/>\n        has been laid low by a Paraesophageal hernia, and a particularly nasty<br \/>\n        one according to doctors on two continents. In our case a particularly<br \/>\n        large hole has appeared in our diaphragm, and almost the entirety of<br \/>\n        our stomach has defied gravity and risen into our chest, migrating far<br \/>\n        from<br \/>\n        its customary home in our abdomen.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/dowbrigade\/tube2.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"360\" hspace=\"6\" align=\"right\">After<br \/>\n        a week in bed in Ecuador, including the last three days in a hospital<br \/>\n        on a saline drip, we were medically evacuated back<br \/>\n        to Boston, where we are now resting relatively comfortably at home awaiting<br \/>\n        major surgery to put everything back where it belongs and patch up the<br \/>\n        hole. Unfortunately, because the hernia is so large, the operation probably<br \/>\n        cannot be done<br \/>\n        completely laparoscopicly, which means they will need to crack the<br \/>\n        chest to patch up the hole.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">There are some great stories involved in our overland<br \/>\n        trek from the mountains of Peru to the coast of Ecuador, and our lets-not-try-that-again<br \/>\n        20-hour evacuation back to the States, but they will have to wait until<br \/>\n        we are feeling a bit better before they see the light of day. In the<br \/>\n        meantime, we are glad to be back in the lap of medical science, and will<br \/>\n        try to post regular updates as possible.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">Stay tuned&#8230;&#8230;..<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Contrary to rumors swirling around the blogosphere, the Dowbrigade has not been kidnapped (again) by Peruvian terrorists, snatched by Colombian drug mafias or disappeared into the secret CIA Black Gulag while investigating military recruiting of Latin gunsels for Middle Eastern &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2006\/01\/11\/dowbrigade-pukes-own-guts-out\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":299,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogging"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/299"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}