Gary, colonoscopy: Gary has had colonoscopies in 2013 (2 polyps) and 2018 (3 polyps). It has been seven years since his last one, and in that time it seems he has grown nine (9!) polyps. All were wee, except one. The big one looked benign, per the doctor.
If true, this is great news. However, Gary now reportedly has an extra-long redundant colon, which means that instead of a colon that goes up, over, and down, he has switchbacks and zig-zags and “significant looping.” It leads to all the difficulties that you would imagine. That doesn’t explain why he breaks out in hives when he eats anything besides chicken vegetable soup. So that mystery persists.
Me, ophthalmologist: I thought I would walk in, ask if I should be concerned that my ocular migraines had changed color and pattern, and leave. But no. I had a new patient visit with a test at every fancy machine. (When we moved to the antiquated “Which is better, this? Or this?” machine, I asked, and they do have the new-fangled eyeball scan machine at a different office.) Eventually I presented my question, and no, I should not be concerned; happens all the time. I imagine the ophthalmologist noticed how my eyes rolled after that.