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Old 04-29-2013, 02:56 PM   #1
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If you're over 50, like me, there's as much truth as humor in this story that was sent to me. Supposedly by Dave Barry, but I haven't snopesed it.-- it is an accurate, if funny, description of the experience.....


Colonoscopy Journal:

I called my friend Andy Sable, a gastroenterologist, to make an appointment for a colonoscopy.

A few days later, in his office, Andy showed me a color diagram of the colon, a lengthy organ that appears to go all over the place, at one point passing briefly through Minneapolis.

Then Andy explained the colonoscopy procedure to me in a thorough, reassuring and patient manner.

I nodded thoughtfully, but I didn't really hear anything he said, because my brain was shrieking, 'HE'S GOING TO STICK A TUBE 17,000 FEET UP YOUR BEHIND!'

I left Andy's office with some written instructions, and a prescription for a product called 'MoviPrep,' which comes in a box large enough to hold a microwave oven. I will discuss MoviPrep in detail later; for now suffice it to say that we must never allow it to fall into the hands of America 's enemies.

I spent the next several days productively sitting around being nervous.

Then, on the day before my colonoscopy, I began my preparation. In accordance with my instructions, I didn't eat any solid food that day; all I had was chicken broth, which is basically water, only with less flavor.

Then, in the evening, I took the MoviPrep. You mix two packets of powder together in a one-liter plastic jug, then you fill it with lukewarm water. (For those unfamiliar with the metric system, a liter is about 32 gallons). Then you have to drink the whole jug. This takes about an hour, because MoviPrep tastes - and here I am being kind - like a mixture of goat spit and urinal cleanser, with just a hint of lemon.

The instructions for MoviPrep, clearly written by somebody with a great sense of humor, state that after you drink it, 'a loose, watery bowel movement may result.'

This is kind of like saying that after you jump off your roof, you may experience contact with the ground.

MoviPrep is a nuclear laxative. I don't want to be too graphic, here, but, have you ever seen a space-shuttle launch? This is pretty much the MoviPrep experience, with you as the shuttle. There are times when you wish the commode had a seat belt. You spend several hours pretty much confined to the bathroom, spurting violently. You eliminate everything. And then, when you figure you must be totally empty, you have to drink another liter of MoviPrep, at which point, as far as I can tell, your bowels travel into the future and start eliminating food that you have not even eaten yet.

After an action-packed evening, I finally got to sleep.

The next morning my wife drove me to the clinic. I was very nervous. Not only was I worried about the procedure, but I had been experiencing occasional return bouts of MoviPrep spurtage. I was thinking, 'What if I spurt on Andy?' How do you apologize to a friend for something like that? Flowers would not be enough.

At the clinic I had to sign many forms acknowledging that I understood and totally agreed with whatever the heck the forms said. Then they led me to a room full of other colonoscopy people, where I went inside a little curtained space and took off my clothes and put on one of those hospital garments designed by sadist perverts, the kind that, when you put it on, makes you feel even more naked than when you are actually naked..

Then a nurse named Eddie put a little needle in a vein in my left hand. Ordinarily I would have fainted, but Eddie was very good, and I was already lying down. Eddie also told me that some people put vodka in their MoviPrep.

At first I was ticked off that I hadn't thought of this, but then I pondered what would happen if you got yourself too tipsy to make it to the bathroom, so you were staggering around in full Fire Hose Mode. You would have no choice but to burn your house.

When everything was ready, Eddie wheeled me into the procedure room, where Andy was waiting with a nurse and an anesthesiologist. I did not see the 17,000-foot tube, but I knew Andy had it hidden around there somewhere. I was seriously nervous at this point.

Andy had me roll over on my left side, and the anesthesiologist began hooking something up to the needle in my hand.

There was music playing in the room, and I realized that the song was 'Dancing Queen' by ABBA. I remarked to Andy that, of all the songs that could be playing during this particular procedure, 'Dancing Queen' had to be the least appropriate.

'You want me to turn it up?' said Andy, from somewhere behind me.

'Ha ha,' I said. And then it was time, the moment I had been dreading for more than a decade. If you are squeamish, prepare yourself, because I am going to tell you, in explicit detail, exactly what it was like.

I have no idea. Really. I slept through it. One moment, ABBA was yelling 'Dancing Queen, feel the beat of the tambourine,' and the next moment, I was back in the other room, waking up in a very mellow mood.

Andy was looking down at me and asking me how I felt. I felt excellent. I felt even more excellent when Andy told me that It was all over, and that my colon had passed with flying colors. I have never been prouder of an internal organ.
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Old 04-29-2013, 03:16 PM   #2
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I guess there is SOME advantage to having about a yard of intestines surgically removed, like I did just over 2 years ago.
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Old 04-29-2013, 03:17 PM   #3
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Pretty accurate...
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Old 04-29-2013, 03:32 PM   #4
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My two favorite lines!!!

This is kind of like saying that after you jump off your roof, you may experience contact with the ground.

I was thinking, 'What if I spurt on Andy?' How do you apologize to a friend for something like that? Flowers would not be enough.
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My two favorite lines!!!

This is kind of like saying that after you jump off your roof, you may experience contact with the ground.

I was thinking, 'What if I spurt on Andy?' How do you apologize to a friend for something like that? Flowers would not be enough.
I agree I actually laughed out loud and a couple coworkers started looking at me like I was crazy
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I agree I actually laughed out loud and a couple coworkers started looking at me like I was crazy
Hell, you should be used to that already.
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Old 04-29-2013, 06:01 PM   #7
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Crap!
That stinks!
Pretty chitty subject!

Puns over, I am shaking knowing my follow up one is due this year.
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Having had three last year, one bad one, one good one and one follow-up, I can promise you that the above is all true. Don't fear the shitter.
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Anyone do colonics?
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I'm 27... and from what I have heard this is one of the less enjoyable things I have to look forward to...

Really funny story... Thanks for sharing...
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I'm 27... and from what I have heard this is one of the less enjoyable things I have to look forward to...

Really funny story... Thanks for sharing...
I had my first at 25... It was much less pleasant back then than it is today
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I had my first at 25... It was much less pleasant back then than it is today
is that to say you get used to having your bung-hole raided?
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I did not go under for mine. One part that is crazy is I was watching it on TV while he did it. Glad he did not see something of concern or that would've freaked my already fragile state at the time. Kind of cool seeing the whole thing.
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I did not go under for mine. One part that is crazy is I was watching it on TV while he did it. Glad he did not see something of concern or that would've freaked my already fragile state at the time. Kind of cool seeing the whole thing.

Can't you just buy the DVD after it's all done?

A blu-ray disc would be even more awesome.
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Can't you just buy the DVD after it's all done?

A blu-ray disc would be even more awesome.
Certainly more interesting than sporting clays.
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Certainly more interesting than sporting clays.

(drooling) *pant*pant* "Pull!"

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fffuuu, I think I'm due for another one.
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Pretty accurate description. I've had four or five. None of them were pleasant.
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Pretty accurate description. I've had four or five. None of them were pleasant.
Based on this thread it seems that this event is a memorable one, how could you not remember how many you've had???
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Imagine going for a colonoscopy and an endoscopy, both in the same day, back to back, and they do the colonoscopy first?
That must leave a bad taste in ones mouth.
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