Hemorrhoids Quotes

(on his decision to pursue an acting career) So I was the associate editor of a medical journal in Chicago, and I was thirty seven, and all of a sudden I just sort of started going through this dark night of the soul... where I just... . Is this going to be it for me, am I going to be spending the rest of my life writing about cataracts and hemorrhoids... and... . just not what I wanted to do, and I was just intensely depressed all the time.

(Explaining how he ended up playing Det. Sgt. Fish on Barney Miller) "I got the role because the producer thought I looked tired. But I looked tired because I had been jogging earlier that day. He said to me, `You look tired, Abe.` I said, `I am. I was just jogging five miles.` He said, `You also look like you have hemorrhoids.` I said, `What are you? A doctor or a producer?` And he said, `Well, I`m a producer and you know what? You`ve got the role.` Just like that."

Why are hemorrhoids called hemorrhoids and asteroids called asteroids? Wouldn`t it make more sense if it was the other way around? But if that was true, then a proctologist would be an astronaut.

Hemorrhoids can bleed, typically after a bowel movement, producing blood-streaked stool or toilet paper, ... The blood may turn water in the toilet bowl red. However, the amount of blood is usually small, and hemorrhoids rarely lead to severe blood loss or anemia.