Cheated Death Again
Image via WikipediaIt's done and I have no polyps this time. Yay! My tummy is still tender but not like when I have polyps removed. The only thing different I have done in the last three years is to take fiber, so no matter if you have problems of any kind regarding this or not, take fiber. The doctor told me everyone needs more fiber.Procedure:
Get up 30 minutes before you have to go. Don't drink or eat anything. waaaa! Drive with the windows down and look at the early morning pink sky thinking if this is my last morning on earth it is a gorgeous one.
Get to the hospital, wind through funky linoleum floored halls to a hall off the hall where there are chairs and tiny rooms. Finish the paper work and sit down to wait. The nurse asks you a second time if you have any medication you take because she can't believe that one as old as yourself is on no medication. Watch all the other people that are checking in.
Look at mrp, get tears in your eyes, jump up and get a kleenex to dab at your eyes as you say. "If I don't make it through this, I love you" HE LAUGHED! And rolled his eyes. He also said I was going to be fine and he wasn't telling me until I got out.
Get called in the room by the male nurse and get the thingy in your arm for the anesthesia. Talk awhile and he tells you to take everything off but your bra and your shoes. Huh? lol I have done a lot of things but never left my shoes on. I did think it was a good idea in case I decided on a quick get away. Hopital gown, bra and shoes on, thingy taped in my arm, and ready to go. Nurse asks if I want my husband in the room with me and I say no, let him rest. He has had enough of me this morning.
Get wheeled down to the plumbing room and get on a table. Lay on my side and talk to the two young nurses who are about 10 years old. When the hell did everyone get so young? If my doc looks like Clay Akin I am hauling it.
Nurse loves my shoes, and I tell her Payless, 9.99, I prefer quantity over quality, She loves Payless too. Feel stupid laying there in a hospital gown and shoes. I think the Dr. must have a shoe fetish.
Doctor comes in, talks a minute. Whew, looks to be about my age but didn't say much and didn't crack a smile when I told him I heard he was a pretty happy guy and liked his job. So much for humor. They turn me on my side, bottom leg straight, top leg bent, being nice to make sure everything else was covered, start the drip and I'm gone buddy.
Wake up in recovery, with a big nurse saying try and stay awake. I hear her say to mrp keep her awake. She asked if I had passed gas. (TMI) You see when the do the scope they blow air inside you so for awhile it is trapped. You wake up looking like Shamu. I didn't think I responded and was having trouble staying awake. MrP got me a coke, donuts and a sandwich. I didn't eat because I still couldn't stay awake and wasn't hungry. Got home and passed out again.
What happened after I was in recovery I found out later, the nurse asked me if I passed gas and what I didn't know is I said, "I never fart but he farts all the time," pointing at mrp. I wondered why mrp was so quiet. On the way home he said I asked him the same two questions over and over. One was, "He told you I didn't have pollups?" and he said he forgot the other one because I asked it so many times. I also told him he hadn't said he loved me and he said, "I did, three times!" ha, gotta love anesthesia. Makes me ms loose lips.
