As I mentioned on Facebook Friday, my doctor reminded me that I’m at that age where I should get a colonoscopy. So I got one yesterday. Honestly, the worst part was not being able to eat on Sunday. I had sooooo many people tell me that they hated drinking the prep solution and that it made them throw up.
If you’re unfamiliar, you have two doses of this powder you mix with 16 to 20 ounces of water. It’s to help clean out the pipes. You drink one the night before and then the other 4 hours before the procedure. Once you mix it, you have to drink it all within 30 minutes. Mine actually had a sweet lemon aftertaste Otherwise, it was too salty, but not terrible. It was gentle on my system too.
At the clinic, it took about half an hour to do paperwork, prep, and then I was out. Next thing I remember is waking up at home. The anesthesia takes out your short term memory for a while. They told me to stay off the internet yesterday after the procedure because they’ve known people that went home and then order the same thing off of Amazon 6 or 7 times because they kept forgetting they’d already ordered it. All in all, it wasn’t the horrible experience we hear people joke about. If you’re 45 or older, please make sure to get one so that cancer doesn’t sneak up on you.
Doc says everything looks good. Well almost everything. Jenny took a couple of pictures of me in the recovery room. She didn’t catch my best side. However, I’m glad to see that my hair spray held through the whole thing.
