I found this article today on Boston Herald. Interesting!
Elvis Presley, the King of bacon, banana, and peanut butter sandwiches, didn't die of a heart condition. He succumbed, on the toilet, to chronic constipation.
That's the word from Presley's longtime friend and personal physician, Dr. George Nichopoulos, who said The King's insides were All Shook Up - and not in a good way.
"We didn't realize until the autopsy that his constipation was as bad," Nichopoulos, author of the new book "The King and Dr. Nick," told Fox News. "We found stool in his colon which had been there for four or five months because of the poor motility of the bowel."
Elvis suffered from a hereditary condition called bowel paralysis, Nichopoulos said. Presley's colon was 5 to 6 inches in diameter, which is about twice the size of the average person's. It was 8 to 9 feet long, where a normal one is 4 to 5 feet, the doctor said.
Nichopoulos said Presley refused to undergo a colostomy, the normal treatment for his condition at the time.
"He thought he was really a man's man and he thought that this was a sign of weakness and he wasn't going to be weak," Nichopoulos said.
"He would get embarrassed," the doctor continued. "He'd have accidents onstage. He'd have to change clothes and come back because of the way we were trying to treat his constipation."
But, Nichopoulos said that, had Elvis gone ahead with the surgery, he might have lived far longer than he did.
"If they had done the colostomy then, he'd probably still be here."
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