The Irony and The Colonoscopy
Sounds like a Woody Allen movie doesn't it?
I am doing the prep for the colonoscopy. Not fun but there is colon cancer in my family so it is a necessity. I don't know if anyone remembers all the press it got when Katie Couric did it when her husband died and then Al Roker, but that was around the time I got my first one. 2000
I urge anyone that is the age of 50 to have it done. I urge anyone who has colon cancer in your family to have it done when you are much younger. Even in your 20's. It could save your life. I went to an iridologist, a person who reads your iris, a couple of years before I had my first colonoscopy, and all she said to me was, watch your colon. It was really freaky when I had it done and remembered she had said that later. I usually have polyps but they have been benign.
So enough with the serious, here is the funny part, if there can be a funny part to a colonoscopy. I had to go get the prescription. All I had on my list was Movi Prep, which is the name of the stuff you drink and Crisco. No joke. So I thought, how embarrassing. So I crossed off Crisco and went to get the prescription. I got there and had to have my Insurance card, which I had forgotten. So I marked off Movi Prep and got the Crisco.
I went back and they ran my card and insurance doesn't pay for it so I had to pay out of pocket. AAARRRGGGHHH! But I got it.
The next morning I re read the instructions and had to get something else called magnesium citrate to start the whole procedure. I put that on the list. I was sitting drinking coffee and thought...I need some toilet bowl cleaner. Totally unrelated to the other thing. Then realized I couldn't buy that at the same time as the magnesium because that is a laxative. So I took that off my list and went to the store, where they DIDN'T have magnesium citrate. I crossed that off my list and got the toilet bowl cleaner and had to make a trip to another store for the magnesium citrate! What an ordeal.
Without thinking I got the magnesium citrate at the next store and walked by and saw this beading magazine, and a wire jewelry one and a paper crafts one. I haven't bought a magazine in over a year. So I picked these up and went and got my magnesium sulfate, not realizing that it looked like I was planning on sitting in the library for some time with my magazines. I tell ya, I just can't win.
Want to see my colon? They always send me 5x7 glossies. ahahahahaha
