{"id":21286,"date":"2011-06-16T14:26:49","date_gmt":"2011-06-16T20:26:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/?p=21286"},"modified":"2011-06-16T14:26:49","modified_gmt":"2011-06-16T20:26:49","slug":"too-much-information-wrap-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/06\/16\/too-much-information-wrap-up.html","title":{"rendered":"Too Much Information Wrap-Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/colonscopy-jimmy.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-21287\" title=\"Colonscopy\" src=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/colonscopy-jimmy-254x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"254\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/colonscopy-jimmy-254x300.jpg 254w, https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/colonscopy-jimmy.jpg 439w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 254px) 85vw, 254px\" \/><\/a>Well, The Big Day came and went without much of a problem.\u00a0 After guzzling down 72 oz. of Internally Cleansing Fun (plus a few pills to assist), and said many ounces and pills having their way with me on Tuesday evening, I slept well, woke up Wednesday, chugged another 32 oz. of Gastric Lavaging Goodness, and headed for the clinic.<\/p>\n<p>We got there early, but didn&#8217;t have much of a wait because the previous appointment no-showed.\u00a0 I got shown to a room, given the opportunity to strip down to a lovely little tiny smock, and invited to lie down.\u00a0 I got all prepped with an IV (the most painful part of the experience), a heartbeat\/temp monitor on an index finger, and a BP cuff that periodically took my blood pressure.<\/p>\n<p>I got to then lie there for about half an hour, watching my pulse and temp and BP and seeing if I could relax further and drop them (no, not really).<\/p>\n<p>Then the doc came in, we chatted for a couple of minutes, I rolled over, they started the anesthetic &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230; and I was waking up in the recovery room, Margie by my side.\u00a0 It took a bit of time for me to get back much cognitive function, and I was a bit wobbly on my feet initially getting on my clothes, but soon we were driving home (by which I mean Margie was driving home and chatting with me and I was drifting in and out) &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>And at home Margie fed me and liquided me and doted on me and put up with the DVDs I watched, and we had a relatively quiet and placid afternoon and evening.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The End<\/p>\n<p>(Well, The End Really once all the post operative diagnostics and testing are taken care of. But The End for this particular adventure.)<\/p>\n<p>(By the way, I have copies of the pictures of my innerds, which you will be pleased to know I will not be posting, but which is kind of fascinating nonetheless.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, The Big Day came and went without much of a problem.\u00a0 After guzzling down 72 oz. of Internally Cleansing Fun (plus a few pills to assist), and said many ounces and pills having their way with me on Tuesday evening, I slept well, woke up Wednesday, chugged another 32 oz. of Gastric Lavaging Goodness, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/06\/16\/too-much-information-wrap-up.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Too Much Information Wrap-Up&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21287,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/colonscopy-jimmy.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6005,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2004\/06\/09\/do_not_be_foole.html","url_meta":{"origin":21286,"position":0},"title":"Do NOT be FOOLED by &#8220;COUNTERFEIT&#8221; pills on OTHER SITES !!","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 9-Jun-04 7:00am","format":false,"excerpt":"What are \"'counterfeit'\" pills, as opposed to \"counterfeit\" pills? 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