No.... the prep the night before was not easy or good.
This is what I looked liked prior to heading out the door to the surgical center where the kind nurse placed a needle in the top of my hand to prepare me for the knock out drug in the surgical room.
Hubby on the other hand looked svelt and darlingly handsome for our departure, but then he always does. Why don't men ever look like crap? Must be his great salt and pepper wavy hair that has something to do with it. My god.... the man looks great even when he's grumpy and down with a death defying illness... like the flu, or a cold.
He called to me to come outside before we left and told me it was VERY pretty out there.
He was right.
We had had a bit of early morning ice and the sun was breaking through and melting it from the branches of the red bud tree and the forest around us.
I think this was a sign that it was going to be a good day, either that or someone was simply giving me the gift of my last day on earth being one to be remembered.
Things went smoothly at the surgical center and I could not have asked for a better group in a medical team. Everyone was just sweet as peaches and cream and by the time I awoke 45 minutes after going lights out I was of course joking with all those around me within ear shot.
I was offered a package of crackers with peanut butter, or my other choice of crackers with cheese. I asked for both and after giving me a funny look, the nurse gave me both. I WAS HUNGRY.
A glass of soda washed it all down and within a few minutes I was dressed and ready to be wheeled out into the sunshine
and head home.
There was a cheeseburger and my own bed at home calling my name.
*for those of you who asked.... my husband drove me to and from the surgical center and waited there for me throughout the time I was there..... he is a keeper you know*
The results were, by the way, very good and they won't be seeing my gorgeous butt face for another five years.
If you are over 50 and have not yet had a colonoscopy or have a history of high percentage of any kind of cancer within your family then please contact your doctor today and go gitter done.
It's important and your family and friends deserve that you go, so do them this favor.
The procedure is easy peasy.
The prep.... well... not so much fun.
Sorry, but that's the truth of it.
28 comments:
Great, "good news!"
Do you remember eating the cheeseburger . . . I usually have a memory fog for a few hours after one of those butt jobbies . . .
I think you and Katie Couric should team up to promote colonoscopy's . . .
Glad it all worked out!!!!
Glad your story has a happy ending.
Glad all went well and you came out smelling like a rose!
Men do always look fine. We recently had a bout of norovirus around here and my hubs look fine and I couldn't BELIEVE how I looked. It was scary.
Good job girl! That prep is horrible.
Being a survivor of colon cancer I wholeheartedly agree with you that those colonoscopys are a must! Don't put it off... you may be saving your life.
I was getting worried for you. Glad it was something unpleasant, but benign. No one offered me food after I had one! But my husband did take me out to IHOP!
I'm glad it's all over for you and you survived the prep. I on the other hand haven't had it done for 10 years only because I can't keep the prep down long enough for it to work. I am hoping they come up with an easier, better tasting prep. Oh, and adding lemonade flavored Crystal Light as I was instructed to do the 2nd time DOES NOT help the taste at all.
Glad everything went well and that you are feeling yourself again. The prep is exhausting but so worth positive results!...:)JP
Lovely photos ! I am glad all went well for you ! Papa always looks good to me and has a mix blondish grey hair . They clean up nicely don't they even when they wear their grubbies they look good must be nice lol! I have been skewered from both ends at the same time as I was diagnosed with IBS ! I woke half way through , they were told by me and my doctor to make sure I get more anesthetic then given to most people as I tend to pull myself out of it, all I heard was she is awake then saw another needle and out I went again ! After the Dr said you weren't kidding about having to give you more knock out stuff were you and that in all his years he had never heard or seen this ! Raining here today and we just had a thunderstorm ! Have a good day .
I won't tell you my NIGHTMARE story from a colonopscopy. Sure am glad that yours went much smoother! :-)
I found your blog kind of randomly and somehow, the first post I read being about a colonoscopy makes me really want to follow you. Honesty in blogging is the best way to write. Even when it's about your butt!
the whole time I was reading your post, I thought you were having work done on YOUR FACE........imagine how I chuckled when I got to the bottom.
OOPS.
So glad all is well. I had that test last June and am glad I do not have it again for ten years. I used to assist with them too and have actually help with biopsies. That was kind of cool.
Glad you got it overwith.
UGH. just that.
Glad that's 'behind' you:@) Oh yea, the 4 year old in me had to make a bad joke... Have a great night!
I went back and read the few posts that I had missed....sorry you had to go through this, but glad you did.
Gosh, could you ever get tired of the view from your property??? I couldn't!
Take care,
Suz
The prep is awful..I agree..My husband had a full head of S&P hair which turned "silver"..Doesn't hurt in making them handsome..Glad things went well..How was the cheeseburger?? Yum!!
a friend of mine just had the same thing done last week.
Glad things went well.
So glad all went well!
As far as the menfolk go.... Joe always looks good and he doesn't have any hair anymore (or at least not much)! It's a bit aggravating though how he has fewer wrinkles than me and hasn't ever used a cream or sunscreen.
This is my year for one, too. Ugh.
Oh, it was lovely out there...he was right. I'm glad you had a smile before you went in for the procedure.
Guys have it easy--they don't need all that make-up, jewelry, spiffy shoes, etc. to look good. I know we don't either...but it's sorta expected of us, you know?
Glad you went... I've done twice (at 50 and again at 62, both were spic n' span with 10 year call backs)... the prep is SO much worse than the procedure. Isn't it funny that anything tastes so good when we've been denied??
I have had several. Two that were horrible and a couple that were just great. Like you, didn't know a thing..
I was warned by a friend once when she found out she had colon cancer.
She was a dear friend and passed away. Still I didn't go and when I finally did it was too late and I lost a ft. of my colon and believe me it isn't easy to live without that extra foot of colon. Don't wait. Have it done! Listen to the Blue Ridge Gal!!
No cancer here...but there could have been.
I'm glad its all over for you. Your hubby is handsome, but you are lovely, so don't be so hard on yourself. Your place is also pretty, many people would love to have a holiday in such a serene atmosphere.
Colonoscopy.... a good idea...BUT...a better idea is to eat all your vegies with the skin cook on them (not over cooked). Eating a baked potato, eat the skin. The skins clean out all the sides of the bowels, and drinking enough water is also the secret. hugs sent your way.
Oh God this post brings back bad memories. I had a colonoscopy performed when I turned 50. The prep the night before got me so dehydrated, when I arrived for the procedure the next morning, I was having full blown pvcs from severe dehydration. They had to hook me up to a heart monitor, call in a cardiologist, and pump iv fluids into me for an hour before they could sedate me. The prep the doc gave me was way too aggressive. Won't be going back to him again. Will have to find someone else for next time.
I am due for my 3rd colonoscopy at the end of Oct this year. My older sister had colon cancer about 6 years ago, therefore, and because I have had polyps the first two times, I go back for them every 3 years. Can't wait and I am looking forward to it!
(hee hee) Seriously, it is the easiest cancer to detect so it is very important to have it done. Glad yours went well and yes, your hubby looked pretty handsome standing there in his nice jeans and black shirt! ~Hugs, Patti
I wish you eternal colon happiness! <3
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