Today, I had my first colonoscopy. It sucks to realize that I’m old now, and I have to worry about things like a colonoscopy. But since we have a history of colon cancer in the family, I bit the bullet and requested it. The procedure itself wasn’t so bad. I was unconscious for the entire thing after all. I did blackout while the nurse repeatedly poked me in the arm, painfully trying to find a vein for the IV, but that was the worst of it.
The really horrible part was the day before. And I don’t mean spending the entire day running to the bathroom after taking the “Drano for your stomach.” It was not being able to eat proper foods. Water and chicken broth are just not adequate substitutes, and I ended up having a migraine the entire day. Which didn’t go away today, since I wasn’t allowed to eat anything. And it’s not like you can take any drugs or anything for it, so I just had to suffer all day.
My mom was nice enough to come up and drive me around. As we left the clinic, she asked me what I wanted to do, and the only thing I could think of was eating food. So, she obliged by getting me a hamburger on the way home.
