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Going to start recuperating from this cold now......back to bed here soon.

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Thanks for the caring. I'm glad to be back home and online here.

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i bet it wasn't as strange a look as the one i got from my doc when i asked him for a copy of the photos after one of my colonoscopies. hey, my friends had been asking what it was like, and i figured a picture is worth a thousand words!

i still have that photo somewhere... i should try to dig it up.

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I don't really know you MA but I do wish you all the best with the surgery.
angel

" I'm not broken, and I dream MY way......."
my friend Jamie P

What's so strange about getting parts they removed from your body? When I had my gall bladder taken out, they gave me a little bag with the stones in it and I didn't even ask for them! LOL

My youngest was still small then and he proceeded to smash each stone! ARGH!! I guess they're not that hard cause he just squished them between his fingers... but, man!! Can those suckers hurt inside of you!! OUCH!!

Dave... tell me it doesn't hurt, that you don't feel anything and have no after effects from the colonoscopy. I'm looking at having one sometime soon. "Please, Mr. Custer! I don't wanna go!"





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Absolutely... this is not "happy talk" here, I find the proceedure very easy.

They give you some relaxers first (including demerol... MAN that feels good!!! ) so MOST people actually SLEEP through the whole thing. That's what happened to me. I was sitting there in heaven over the demerol and the doc said "it's over" and I said "but you didn't DO anything yet!" Apparently I had been asleep for about 20 minutes.

The next time I was afraid I wouldn't sleep because now I was anxious hoping that I would fall asleep again. No problem, I guess demerol is pen and anxiety is the sword, and we all know who is the mightier of the two.

I slept through the subsequent ones (I have one every year)

EXCEPT for the last one I had! So now I can also honestly tell you that it is still OK even if you don't sleep through it. I remember being awake and I was not anxious, but I was noticing that I was awake. The demerol still felt reeeeeeally good so in a way I was happy to be awake so I could enjoy the drugs longer . The time still flew by really fast... maybe I slept through part of it without knowing. My only mistake was at one point looking over to the image on the monitor... which I KNEW was a mistake from the BE's and things I've had in the past... but even that didn't bother me too much. Hey, there are my intestines... wave hello!

I do have a very good doctor for this but from my experience the procedure is absolutely nothing to worry about. You don't feel it, you may simply sleep through it, and time flows by so fast that even if you don't sleep it is over before it begins.

There is no discomfort afterward either. Unlike a BE where it may take a while to get the last of the barium out.

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It's quite a relief hearing that from you, Dave. Of course, I'm going to be anxious anyway, but I'll keep what you've said in mind. The demerol sounds good to me! LOL Waving "Hi" to your intestines! That's got to be "the drugs" talking. LOL

Thanks alot, Hun. If nothing else, I'll remember to wave to my intestines if I don't go to sleep. LOL





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Tomi, I still have mine from my gall bladder surgery too, last year.

They look so gross, all green and stuff. ewwwwwwwwww

Anyway, I'm starting my collection of internal parts - lol.

Dare I ask what a colonoscopy is and why you would have one?

A "colon" - oscopy. eeewwwww They go up your intestines to check for pollips to make sure you don't have the starts of cancer. You're supposed to have these things after you're 50... well, this is my first one and I'm 60. Guess I've missed quite a few, but that's okay. I wouldn't mind missing them the rest of my life.





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