Tuesday I have to have a colonoscopy.
This post could end right there and I think you would still understand exactly how I feel about that. I don’t know of a single person that says “Colonoscopy! Wooo!” The colonoscopy cringe factor is pretty universal.
Before you ask, I am perfectly 100% healthy, I just have a very slight issue. An issue that, in my book, doesn’t warrant a colonoscopy because in MY book, the book of everything reasonable and sane, nothing short of a kidney falling out of your ass warrants anyone putting anything…there.
But if I were being completely honest, while the idea of the whole procedure doesn’t make me do backflips, it’s the prep I’m dreading the most.
I have to essentially fast for 24 hours.
Anyone who knows me knows I have food issues. The idea of only having clear liquids for an entire day does weird things to my head. It’s not that I think it’s going to be that terrible, it’s just, you know – I can’t even describe it.
I’ve joked with my husband that I must have starved to death in a previous life because the thought of no food freaks me out so much. I can’t stand it when the fridge starts looking too bare. He can, and does, fast for days at a time. I can’t even wrap my mind around that, which I guess is entirely the point of that kind of fast – wrapping your mind around it.
So Monday I will be wrapping my mind around it. There will be Jello and clear liquids and I don’t know how this is going to go, but we’re going to find out.
We’re not going to talk about Tuesday just yet. Just be glad they’re going to sedate me or I’d live-tweet the whole thing. I’m not even kidding.
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August 7th, 2010 at 7:02 am
The actual procedure is best part because they give you lovely drugs that make you nice and sleepy like a warm bath and then when it’s over you wake up and feel like you’ve had the best night’s sleep and then you can go eat!
The prep sucks. If I didn’t have to take the day off for the actual procedure, I’d take the day off for the prep so I could sleep through it. Ugh.
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August 7th, 2010 at 8:51 am
I’m looking forward to the drugs part. My mom said they didn’t work all that well for her, so I’m hoping my apple falls a long ways away from THAT tree!
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August 7th, 2010 at 7:48 am
Good luck with that Lisa…as a 45 yr old guy with a family history of colon cancer – I feel your pain and HAVE felt it LOL
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August 7th, 2010 at 8:52 am
I have the same family history, so I’m pretty sure there are a lot more of these in my future.
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August 7th, 2010 at 8:43 am
i’ll be thinking of you and sending good juju your way. <3
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August 7th, 2010 at 4:23 pm
Good luck with this. I get to go in for one of these in the next 12 months (approaching 50 in 3 years, my doctor has advised me that I need to make sure there is nothing there).
As for going without food for 24 hours, that could prove bad for me, too. So I understand.
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August 9th, 2010 at 9:24 am
How did it go? My husband is the same way – he skips meals all the time. I have never skipped a meal. Can’t do it.
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