Just asked my wife for the definition of "pelvic abscess" because she is a nurse.
"a what"? A "pelvic abscess", dear. "Oh, that's not good"!
Apparently this is a condition where a tear develops inside the rectum. Fecal matter enters and forms a festering pocket like a little shit filled water balloon. It pops. Bad things happen. You go septic, quick.
They have to open you up and flush it all out, boost you full of a staggering amount of antibiotics and install a colostomy bag upstream from the blowout. Your colon is left outside of your body, marinating in an antibiotic soup for awhile as your nether regions are continually flushed out. Odds are good that you are toast as infections like this spread like wildfire.
Couldn't have happened to a nicer guy.
