Bland and blander

[grammarwoman]

In the continuing and exciting adventures of My Body vs. the Medical Establishment, my colonoscopy procedure has finally come due; I report in first thing Thursday morning. I got some food advice on how to eat in the preceding days from the nurse who called me last week (no seeds, no popcorn, no fruit/veggie peels), and more from the internet: bleached carbs, simple proteins, and nothing fibrous. So today's boring meals have included a pastina/egg/butter/parmesan mashup, a bagel with cream cheese, canned chicken noodle soup, and a peanut butter and honey sandwich. Tomorrow's menu is all clear liquids, like naked chicken broth, clear fruit juice, and cold or frozen versions with not-red-or-purple coloring (evidently red dyes can show up looking like blood to the scope), which makes for limited popsicle and Jello flavors. I stocked up on lots of options at the store, but I'm guessing I'm still going to be hungry tomorrow. Plus megadoses of laxatives, yay!

It's weird (and hopefully not jinxing myself), but I'm more concerned about not having done my prep correctly than about what the results will be. My mom has had polyps removed in her later years, and my brother had obvious symptoms of something awry, so my odds seem to be better than that. I do know if there is any uncertainty or lack of clarity of the scan, like what happened to my brother, I won't shrug it off.

Wish me luck!

Comments

[heresluck]

...yeah, that's some pretty boring food. But here's to a straightforward procedure and good results!

[grammarwoman]

Thank you! Hopefully I will not descend into the Hangries. :)

[monanotlisa]

Hah, no chance of that not happening.

For me, though, the worst was being so. So. Cold.

[grammarwoman]

I was fearing far, far worse than it turned out to be with being hungry. Still unpleasant, but bearable.

OMG, nobody warned me about The Cold! I normally run hot, what with all my extra personal insulation and such, but I got a bad case of the shivers last night and it was unsettling.

I want to fast-forward through the next couple of hours to be Done Already.

[monanotlisa]

Yep yep been there longed for that.

fingers crossed

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[grammarwoman]

Home again, and everything's fine - thank you! :}

[catwalksalone]

Good luck!

[grammarwoman]

Thanks!

[gwyn]

I almost feel like being told I have cancer was less horrible than the prep involved, and no one told me about the diet the day before the day before. I never really got to a point where everything was clear, and I felt kind of angry about it later. Like maybe it wouldn't have been so goddamn painful. So you're starting from a better place.

I don't like any of the "safe" flavors of Jell-O, so that was also horrible. Aside from the fact that you're starving and it's the only thing vaguely resembling solid, it's just such a drag to only be able to eat lime or lemon or orange. I finally found a store that sold peach, but it was late afternoon by when I found it and then took forever to set.

I hope you have way better news, and yours goes smoothly.

[grammarwoman]

Aw, thank you, sweetheart! I hope I didn't come off too cavalier, because I totally did not mean to be insensitive to what you're going through right now. *HUGS*

That sucks that yours was painful, and that they didn't give you enough info. It's terrible how much of burden of educating themselves has been offloaded onto the patients.

I'm hoping that I'm doing this right! I was super resentful making my son's lunch this morning, knowing I won't be having any solids for the next day and half. I had to roll my eyes when I checked the label for the orange flavored Jell-O, because of course it has red in it. *sigh* I hope the mango one I found isn't too gross. I've also got some white grape juice freezing in popsicle molds, so hopefully I'm not gnawing on myself by the day's end.

[oracne]

I found that coconut water (no pulp) was good on the clear liquids day - it made a nice change.

[grammarwoman]

Ooo, that's a thought - I may need to run out and get some. Thanks!

[sheafrotherdon]

Good luck, you!

[grammarwoman]

Thank you! :)

[renenet]

Good luck! Best wishes!!

[grammarwoman]

Thank you! I am home again, with food in my stomach and a clean bill of intestinal fortitude. :)

[kayote]

When the secretary in my department had that done she informed her husband that morning "You absolutely cannot say I am full of it. All of it has left!"

[grammarwoman]

Heh, I said something very similar to the husband after the procedure.