December 3, 2008

• All’s Well

  Well, after five years, it was time again.  With a family history of colon cancer, I started getting colonoscopies 10 years ago and have to have one every five years.  The procedure itself is not at all a bother – they put you under light sedation and you’re off to lala land.  When you get home, you take a nap and EAT SOLID FOOD for the first time in 48 hours, and you’re back to normal.  It’s the prep that sucks big time.  At least they’ve made it a litte easier than the last time I did this by adding flavoring and sweetener to the noxious stuff you have to drink the night before.  It was much easier to take – not yummy by any stretch of the imagination, mind you – but I didn’t feel like throwing up even once.  An evening in the bathroom just isn’t the most fun way you can spend your time though.

  My Dad has to go in every other year because they almost always find and snip off a few polyps – his dad died from colon cancer.  The polyps have always been benign, but those are the ones that are likely to go bad and become a malignant cancer if they’re not caught early.  I’m really hoping that I won’t end up like that.  At any rate, I came through with flying colors.  Not a trace of any abnormality, and I don’t have to do it again for five years.  Yippee!

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