A MAN’S GOT TO UNDERSTAND HIS LIMITATIONS: Man’s daily vodka intake calcified his pancreas.

After drinking a half a pint of vodka every day since he was 35, a 50-year-old man in Pennsylvania went to the emergency room vomiting blood. He complained of abdominal pain and “foul-smelling diarrhea” that had been plaguing him for two months, per a report on his case in the New England Journal of Medicine.

He was diagnosed with chronic pancreatitis, which is most often caused by alcoholism and means his pancreas was inflamed. In this case, a CT scan found “extensive calcification of the pancreas,” the doctors who treated him report.

I suspect he may have been drinking more than his claimed daily half-pint.