At first:
But then:
A BM every 2-3 days isn’t healthy, since most of us typically go at the normal frequency of least once a day. And with his appalling diet…! His gut microbiome and bowels must be such a fucking graveyard. If you were shrunk, put into a submersible, and put into Jack’s body (à la Dennis Quaid in 1987’s
Innerspace), something like this is what would likely greet you at the end of the lower esophageal sphincter:
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Fecal impaction saga when? My deepest sympathies to the doctor who has to provide the treatment…
With all ^that taken into account, I imagine that Jack taking a shit is a long production that sounds like a warthog in grueling labor, with Tammy by his side for support and encouragement. For Jack, taking a shit probably feels like passing a rock through a tight, marble tube. And while Tammy is silently wiping afterwards, he perplexedly muses to her about what was hurting him so much.