"Yes, you too can lose THREE pounds in TWO days!"

[sergebroom]

It's amazing what two days on a diet of fruit juice supplemented by two doses of phospho-soda will do to one's total weight. As for the colonoscopy, there was nothing to it. Mainly because all I remember is the tube being inserted you-know-where then its being removed. I was always awake, I was told, but the drugs they gave me played havoc with my short-term memory. There was no discomfort after it was all over, no queasiness, but I was a bit tired. Not so tired though that I couldn't enjoy last night's supper. Yum!!!

I got a kick out of the procedure being done by one Doctor Ming.

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[miltonthales.livejournal.com]

The guy who did my outpatient hernia surgery about ten years ago was Dr. Grief.

Was this a virtual colonoscopy or the old-fashioned variety?

[serge-lj.livejournal.com]

Doctor Grief? You're not kidding? I guess that's better than surgeon Doctor Gore (from my Toronto-inhabiting days). Or my wife going to our local clinic's emergency and being treated by Doctor Faust.

As for the colonoscopy... What does the virtual kind consist of?

[miltonthales.livejournal.com]

From the NIH: cameras (http://digestive.niddk.nih.gov/ddiseases/pubs/virtualcolonoscopy/index.htm) rather than scrapings.

Nope, I'm not kidding. Dr. Mark Grief, who was actually quite a cheerful guy.

[serge-lj.livejournal.com]

And what is a virtual colonoscopy?

[miltonthales.livejournal.com]

Check the link in my previous comment. 10 minutes, no sedation, tiny camera on probe, etc., etc.

[serge-lj.livejournal.com]

Oops. I had missed that part of your earlier response. Now that I've seen what the virtual procedure is, I can safely say I had the old-fashioned kind, which took only 15 minutes.

One interesting thing about this is the drug that messed up my short-term memory. It shows how much an individual's confirmed existence relies on memories. I'm not sure that what I just wrote makes sense, or that it is quite what I'm trying to express. Oh well. Still, it sounds like something from Philip K. Dick.