That's what killed Elvis," said Adrianne Noe. Noe is the director of the National Museum of Health and Medicine, which has its own megacolon, from an unknown party. As we were about to get off the phone, Elvis Presley dropped into the conversation. Noe related that she'd been standing by the megacolon exhibit one day and a visitor told her that Elvis had had one too. The man added that Presley had struggled with constipation his whole life and that as a child his mother Gladys had had to "manually disimpact" him. "He said that's why Elvis was so close to his mother." A quiet moment followed. "Really.
( Mary Roach )
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