I've had better...

that is my response to the question - how was your colonoscopy?

i'm not sure what's more sad; that i've had enough scoping to equate "many" or that yesterday's was so ridiculously awful. hmm, where to start?

1. the "golytely" prep should be renamed "go never." stuff made me gag and didn't kick in till after 1 in the morning. not quite the 7pm the nurse told me. although in an entertaining note, i channeled my inner gracie lou and spent about 7 hours curled into a tight little ball.

2. the chicago docs may have misdiagnosed me (we still don't have the results but it's looking that way..) but at least they were all about the drugs. here's the thing, the actual procedue isn't bad AS LONG AS YOU'RE PROPERLY DRUGGED. the nurse kept asking me if i was "medicated' the last times i had one, and i kept saying, yep they drugged me up. heck, as they were starting and she said "okay here's the first medicine" i lifted up my arm and said "dope me up!"

um, it didn't work. apparently the normal amount of drugs just didn't do it for me. neither did the second round they gave me. of course they can only administer it so fast, and it's only a 20 minute procedue. as the doc said after, next time we'll start at a higher dosage. don't worry, mom made sure to ask if there woudl be a next time any time soon - i think she was concerned that eventhough i was curled in a ball on the hospital bed, i was shooting some major evil looks.

i'm finally recovered today, but i'm really not looking forward to doing this again any time soon.

hmm, what else...after spending three days at my parents i'm def ready to go home. although mom has offered to make me dinner, so i'll be here for at least a few more hours :)

the shoulder is doing better and i canceled my appt with the orthopedist. i don't need to waste $20 on a co-pay or having a claustrophobic nightmare in an MRI machine if it's not necessary.

next week i'm back to Plano, and the icky water. if i remember, i'm going to bring this water filter thing i got a long time ago and see if it works.

this weekend there's potential meat raffling and/or a volunteer thing for pups. and that's about it!