Lee Gaitan

Lee Gaitan

From Boob to Bowel: My year of Living Embarrassingly

The embarrassment factor rose substantially when I was struck with a violent stomachache shortly after wolfing down a baked sweet potato for dinner. The pain raged all night and was so intense by 6:00 a.m. my husband whisked me to the hospital. Clearly, this was more than sweet potato indigestion. Once at the hospital, I was examined by two barely pubescent ER docs who must surely have come from the same gene pool of handsomeness as my long-ago breast surgeon. Seriously, these kids were so adorable I nearly blushed. (Where were these cutie-pie doctors when I was about a hundred years younger and not attired in dog-hair-covered socks and a hospital gown? Youth really is wasted on the young.) Anyway, Doogie Howser #1 and #2 got right down to business. “Tell me about your bowel movements,” ...
Lee Gaitan

Lee Gaitan

Lee Gaitan has authored two books, Falling Flesh Just Ahead, and My Pineapples Went to Houston—Finding the Humor in My Dashed Hopes, Broken Dreams and Plans Gone Outrageously Awry. Her work has been published on The Huffington Post, Midlife Boulevard, The Good Men Project and other sites.