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God luck Janey - show them what a Canuck is made of

You will be fine I am positive


Renes

Just take the ring and a bucket ;)

JC....leave some bl##dy white space please, oh, and some thinking space too ;)

I didn't make that up, Ginny! Just copied and pasted from the New England Journal of Medicine 1995 -- my dad is famous, you see; he's the "alert cheerful man". ;)

Like father like daughter ...

I do expect to be fine, Irene -- it's the doctors and their henchpeople I fear for!

You only have to drink half a cup of the stuff twice?? Lucky you!

I'm overdue to have another one,but the thought of getting down 4 litres of that yukky stuff is stopping me from making an appointment.I suppose I will have to force myself!

All the best for for Tuesday.Let us know how you fare.... I'm sure everything will be fine. Margot.

Hmmm

so if the camera is about a 5mm diameter? as big as a biro.......also similar size is the one for a male bladder /prostate inspection...........after having one of those...... I know which orifice I would prefer inspected.....Bob

but lets hope it goes well, Janey

Bob, and speaking of holding hands ... mine got held by No.1 as they attempted twice to catheterize him during his first bout of diabetic ketoacidosis near-death last year. Numb for a week, I was. When it happened all over again three days later, I told them not even to try trying that. And I made sure they slapped a patch on him asap, too. ;) And then I got to have my hand held by him as the nurse tried 8 times to get an IV in him when he was in for the retinal detachment in July ... He looks so skinny and fragile!

I'm due for my first dose in about 2 hours. Better get some work done now I think!

Margot, maybe it's changed since last time, check it out! I know this is a whole lot simpler than when I had to walk the old African gent through it a few years ago.

Dear diary ... I have just drunk my first 5-ounce concoction. So far, it's making me a teeny bit queasy and made me burp ...

To stave off the horrified outcries against what might come next -- fear not. I shall put a lock on the diary. ;)

Janey, I knew there was a higher power that made me choose this week to go away for a few days sans PC ;)

But really, best of luck with it .

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Best wishes Janey

Hope everything goes well which I am sure it will

All the best for tomorrow, Janey.

Gwynne

Lots of big squishy hugs for Janey - 'cos I know you love it:-)))

S x

Now I just feel like a big baby -- look how many people have had this done to them and lived to tell the tale!

My thread is purely educational. ;)

Talked to my little sister this afternoon. She was not much help on the sedative side, but said her experience was pretty la la la so that's the standard I'll be measuring by. If it ain't la la la, it ain't enough!

Good luck, Janey. BCXX

Hope everything went alright today Janey xx♥xx

Feeling better, Janey?

good luck janey xxx

Hope all went well, please keep us updated
Regards, Liz

I'm baaaack. ;)

Totally uneventful. The prep, the procedure, the whole thing.

So since my real aim was to encourage anyone who should be having a colonoscopy to go and get one, I can now speak with the voice of experience and say: do it! It's no big deal.

The doc did find one teeny tiny polyp in me and took it out.

The results will take about a month, I think it was. If it shows anything, I go back for a repeat in 3 years; if not, 5 years. (That's because I'm at "increased risk" because of a sister with colorectal cancer at a very young age.)

I had only one bad consequence.

They gave me a turkey salad sandwich in the recovery room, and mushy as it was, I managed to break another piece of tooth off the molar I broke last week. Already cracked, obviously, if all it took was a mushy sandwich to finish it off. ;)

Other than that, I was well sedated, it did hurt a bit (part of that is the gas they pump you full of, part was the actual pushing of the scope around), I got conscious enough about 2/3 of the way through to watch the last bit on the colour TV screen, and apparently I made lots of gas noises (wind to you!) in the recovery room.

The whole thing from arrival at hospital to release from recovery room was 2 hours. And I slept for many hours when I got home. ;)