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popeye1250 -> RE: Fun today and tommorow! (Colonoscopy!) (4/9/2008 11:45:54 AM)
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Hiya, back home, all went well 4 polyps cut out and sent to Path Lab.
The Doc said everything "looks good" if you like lookin' up someone's bum.
The Doc loves my Boston accent, he was trying to imitate it, the Nurses were funny as hell!
A neighbor lady drove down with me to drive me back.
And after we'd checked in and were sitting in the waiting room with about 20 other people a lady came in and called out my name and asked; "Who's going to be driving you home, we need to get her name?"
I said in a strong voice; "Driving me home? Why my concubine Leslie here!"
She gave me a good wack and everyone burst out laughing.
The poor lady was in tears trying to write my friend's name.
They do it assembly line style at the V.A. Hospital.
There was another veteran, (Marine, Tet veteran) next to me on another cart in the prep room and two more right across the hall.
One of the Nurses told me that some days they might do 30 or 40 colonoscopys.
And, they didn't knock me out, they gave me some type of sedative and I was awake and watching the whole thing on a t.v. screen.
Not at all unpleasant.
And they said that they had to blow air into me to inflate the colon so expect flatulence for the rest of the day.
Man, I've been ripping out some good ones!
My gut is sore from having to drink all that solution yesterday and the digestive system is sore from having to work overtime.
But it's done for another few years and the results are good.
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