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  1. I think I ate a big Chipotle burrito before mine - you're gonna be really, really hungry as it is so I would definitely not start early. There's no real reason to, plus you're just asking for a longer period of "irritation" below the equator.

     

    It's really unfortunate that we've never adopted the bidet concept here in the USA, I could see how that would help immensely.

     

    So what time do you actually start?

     

    The Pre-emptive Burrito is brilliant. If you're going to have explosive diarrhea, why not?

     

    I start the prep at noon tomorrow (four Dulcolax), then hit the jug of chilled Gatorade/Miralax powder starting at 2. The "action" is predicted to start, according to the instructions, between 2 and 3 o'clock.

     

    Maybe we have can a pool...

  2. I've always heard of a mythical guy who has a tattoo on his butt cheek of Yogi Bear, peering into "the cave" asking "Hey Boo Boo, are you in there?"

     

    That's almost too good to be true!

     

    So I'm wondering if it would make sense to eat very light tomorrow, if not start the liquid diet a day ahead of time. Or, given the apparent semi-violent nature of the cleansing, is it better to have something solid in my innards?

     

    Right about now is where the faint of heart should probably stop visiting this thread. Others are free to make snacks.

  3. No I was in the ER for multiple injuries and they wouldn't take me to surgery until I emptied my bladder, but the drugs they had me on rendered me incapable of emptying it myself. So as I laid there for what seemed like hours I finally heard my wife, the nurse practitioner, tell the ER nurse: "he'll never tell you that he can't go, just go ahead and cath him." So my own wife threw me under the bus. I had numerous follow up surgeries from that ordeal and ended up getting the roto rooter a few more times...it never got any easier.

     

    As far as the colonoscopy, my grandfather died of colon cancer in his 70's and that is my only family member with a history. I've asked two different docs if I should have one, but they said I don't need it until I'm 50.

     

    According to the ACS, it seems your doctors are right. (If you had a second "second-degree relative" with colon cancer, that would change things. This can get tricky when we don't know what some of our grandparents and aunts and uncles died of.)

     

    http://www.cancer.org/cancer/colonandrectumcancer/moreinformation/colonandrectumcancerearlydetection/colorectal-cancer-early-detection-acs-recommendations

  4. Being able to chew normally is one of those things you can't truly appreciate until you are unable to do it for some length of time. After 6 months with a loose temporary crown and another 8 1/2 months with varying stages of the dental implant, I finally got my new permanent crown / tooth yesterday. I'm not sure I'd say it was worth $3500, but it is glorious being able to eat like a normal person again after so long.

     

    The weather here is F'N Fantastic.

     

    And hopefully later today PA will have gotten a clean bill of health.

     

    Thanks kiddo. But my scope is next Friday. I may have jumped the shark a bit by starting that thread so soon. I'm not sure my colon can remain a source of interest for another week.

     

    I hear you on the choppers. I'm almost five months in braces, and only recently have teeth shifted around to where my bite is normal again. It's great, but now I'm wolfing down food like a 15-year-old longshore-boy.

     

    And, yes, it's a beautiful day in Pennsyltucky!

  5. I've not undergone a full colonscope, but I've had something less intrusive -- what was it -- an endoscope? If my experience is any indicator, the recovery room where all the -scope dudes (it was all dudes when I was in) go before being released is a hilarious and entertaining symphony of (odorless) farts that are passed as the air leaves the inner paths that the -scopes had to travel.

     

    Note to self: The Symphony of Odorless Farts will be the title track for the 22-minute opus (broken down into multiple suites) that will occupy the entirety of side 2 of my prog rock band's debut album.

     

    I saw Ess Oh Eff at Artpark. Fabulous.

  6. I had the game on in the car long enough to hear Mark Kelso, before the Bills' first drive, say, in response to Murph saying the offense had to get something going, something to the effect that, "Yeah, the Bills need to at least get the ball over midfield before giving up possession."

     

    If his voice wasn't bad enough, that made me turn it off.

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