I love Propofol. One second you’re having a pleasant conversation before your scopage with the nurse anesthesiologist, and then the very next moment you’re waking up in recovery next to your husband.
Now, the first few conversations I had after coming out went directly to dreamland. I asked a few nurses “HEY DID I JUST ASK YOU FOR A MUFFIN AND YOU SAID YOU DIDN’T HAVE MUFFINS? AND DID YOU SAY YOU LIKED MY SOCKS? DID WE JUST TALK ABOUT THAT?”
At some point I got my mind right and the doctor came by. My colon was very clean, yes, he encountered the loop by my navel I warned him about, and when I asked if I was boisterous during the procedure, he said,
“You were fine. You were a lady.”
I hooted. I wasn’t a lady before; I can’t imagine the anesthetic would have made me more polite.
But, is this not the most luminous and clean colon you’ve ever seen?
ACTUAL PHOTO
Yes, that whitish flat thing at the bottom is a polyp, and it has been removed. (Oh! I just remembered! I asked the doctor if I could have the polyp in a jar and he thought I wanted to make jewelry out of it.)
That polyp looks too pure and clean to be pre-cancerous, so no more colonoscopies for me for ten more years.
6 responses to “Waking Up”
Wonderful! My husband had a pre-cancerous lesion removed a few years ago. The Dr. congratulated him on having the procedure done and thus saving his own life. His father died of cancer of the rectum at age 63 but a colonoscopy would no doubt have saved him. I’ve had the procedure done three times and have come up clean so far.
My grandmother died of colon cancer and my aunt had it and is now age 90 but has a colostomy.
Worth doing!
I guess if I see enough colons on the web; I’ll have to eventually break down and get a colonoscopy. (Which my doctor has been pushing for for the last 7 years.) All the cool kids are doing it?
Congratulations. You are the my only friend to ever have shown me the inside of her colon.
This post needed a warning in Reader. I’m drinking coffee, for pete’s sake.
That colon is SPARKLING clean. But disturbingly gaping, somehow. Asking to be filled?
Hattie – Gary had two polyps out last time, and I had the one. It’s alarming to think they could be pre-cancerous, but then nice to think that by the time you learned that they’d be gone.
Amy in StL – It isn’t so bad. Do it! Besides, you might have polyps and they can take them out.
Tami – The bathroom here at home has the colonoscopies of my aunt, my brother, and Gary.
Magpie – It wasn’t Mountain Dew. That would require a warning.
Big Dot – Well, it was Chili Day at work today, so that happened. Of course, since Tuesday nothing has made it all the way through the circuit.