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by mrtree 1524 days ago
A reminder to get checked with the doctor regularly and to treat intestinal issues seriously.
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He had ulcerative colitis. People more or less use "having an ulcer" as slang for being in a bad mood. Maybe he was like the giant with a thorn in its foot - something bothered him, and that made him less than in a good mood.
Wasn't he diagnosed more than a decade before he died?