It's all over now, and this is how it went:
I started drinking only clear liquids Thursday AM. And at 4PM I drank
one of the Fleet things in 4oz. of 7-UP. I bypassed the taste by using
a straw, so it wasn't too bad. It still made me a tiny bit nauseous.
At 6PM I drank another one. The games began immediately. I was on the
run to the toilet all evening. I had used some petroleum jelly on my
beeehind and there was minimal damage there.
I was up at 5AM for another Fleet drink but this time nothing to wash
it down with. Ugh. Then Susan came to get me at 7AM for the trip to
the doctor's office. When we got there I was taken straight to the
back to start the procedure. The most pain I had from this was the IV
needle in the back of my hand. Man, it hurt like hell.
Then I was wheeled into the ROOM to have it done. The anesthetist told
me who she was and I immediately ask if I was going to have Versed.
She asked why wouldn't I want it? I said, I had heard that it would
make me forget everything, she asked, You want to remember all of
this? I said NO, I want
Valium. She said, No, Versed is better for
you. Now, the whole time we are having this conversation she is
picking up syringes and getting them ready, while telling me how I
will really like Versed. Hmmm....she hooks a tube to my IV connection
on my hand and I felt something....just a little "funny", you know?
Then...nothing. The next thing I remember someone is calling my name.
And I am now in recovery, Susan is sitting there and the nurses are
talking and shuffling papers. The doctor walks in and says a bunch of
stuff I don't remember and they offer me a soft drink. I was parched
at this point and was SO HAPPY to have something to drink.
Susan was in there to hear what the doctor said. She also told me
about the things I said. (I thought I had just "thought" them, but
evidently I actually said them!) Something about my mother told me not
to fart in public and I was doing it now cause I couldn't help it.
So, I got more awake and less loopy by the minute and within 15 mins
or so I was walking out of there. The doctor did come back in before
I left and I asked him to tell me again about what he found. He even
showed me pictures. I felt like I was in "show and tell" with my colon
as the subject.
Bottom line....he removed a very large polyp from my colon. Just one,
but it was large and not cancer. He told me I would have to come back
in 3 years because they had found a polyp. So....
All in all it was not a bad experience. The worse part was the liquid
diet and the Fleet things. They made me a little sick. The needle in
the hand was evil. But the rest was alright. I would still have rather
had Valium. Susan told me everything I didn't remember. It must be the
law in GA to have someone there because she had to sign a piece of
paper as a designated "responsible" adult. She liked that.
Dana
Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons,
for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup.
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