I’m in for some heavy drinking tonight. Two gallons worth to be exact. Yes, as you might have surmised, I’m doing my prep for tomorrow’s colonoscopy. The chicken broth will be my “dinner”. My instructions are to drink 8 ozs every ten minutes until I burst. No, that’s not what the solution I imbibe is gonna make me do, but that is probably more detail than you want to hear (or I care to share).
I did this last year, so I know what I’m in for. The procedure itself isn’t so bad since they drug you up real good. But the prep is a pain in the ass (heh). No coffee or diet cokes today and a bowl of soup for lunch. I go under the scope (or more aptly, the scope goes into me) at 0930, so I don’t imagine I’ll starve between now and then.
But it is a hassle and I’ll be glad when it’s over.
Hasta la vista!
For the record, I had one of these a few years ago too. But I only had to drink a gallon of the stuff and was amazed that I could force myself to actually do it – but I didn’t get a break on any broth or anything else.
Though I was put completely under too, when I woke up I was totally alert with zero after-effects from the anesthetic or procedure either. I went and had a huge breakfast and came home and took a nap and was good to go.
You’ll be fine, John.
But damn, John…TWO gallons ??????? – you must have a hellofa lot of intestines . . . .
That is almost exactly how it went, right down to the nap (which I just woke up from).
Well, I must confess, I didn’t make the full two gallons. I don’t see how it can be done either. The one gallon certainly did the trick as far as cleaning the pipes though.
You know, if Uncle Sam is looking for a waterboarding alternative, forcing someone to drink 2 gallons of that crap would probably get them to talk…
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Excellent….. ! ! ! Completely agree….
You gonna share with us the report, John…… presumably ur ok…….??? fingers crossed here….