I went to the toilet and sat down and my bowels emptied completely. This is not pleasant to talk about I know, but it happened: an urgent, steady, total voiding, the need for which had insisted on itself as soon as I knew my husband was in danger. This went on for some time, and I could do nothing to stop it. I sat with my elbows on my knees, my head in my hands, letting my body empty itself, until there could be nothing left. Throughout the hour of this emergency I had been absolutely calm. But the primitive body knows fear, and responds. I have had this same thing happen two or three times
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