Earlier this week I put up a comedy video clip of Jeff Foxworthy talking about his colonoscopy. It made me laugh a lot, and while doing so I had a thought. How many songs have been written about this procedure?
See (and hear) a few for yourself.
And, in honor of the doctor who takes care of such problems, here's Bowser and Blue with their famous Colorectal Surgeon Song, which we've encountered in these pages several times before.
I hope that's encouraged those of you looking forward (?) to this procedure!
Peter
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Some years ago I finally got mine done after much avoidance. Too late. After a following surgery I awakened missing some colon and the ileocecal valve, tubes down my nose and throat and a long incision in my belly. Recovery from all that abdominal cutting was worse than for my lumbar surgeries (2).
Colonoscopy was a piece of cake, but surgical recovery was motivation enough to never put off a colonoscopy again.
GIT 'ER DONE!!
(I'm now aged out and will never be on the schedule again, so there is a spot for you!)
Can't believe nobody has posted this yet. I laughed so hard I couldn't breath
https://youtu.be/WgC8-k3Kgp8
I just poop in a box every couple of years and send the chocolate to a lab.
The colonoscopy isn't bad. In fact given the situation, you wake up heavily pleased because the date rape drug that they give you has that afterglow thing going on.
The sigmoidoscope (aka silver stallion) that only goes up a few inches happens while you're awake and you experience the entire date rape-end-to-end no date rape drugs.
Go with (back) door number one.
I suspect that sometime in the past, the doctor and staff dressed up as aliens...
BTW, I'm now on my 3rd or 4th gastroenterologist. The first reported to me and my doctor that I was perfectly fine, so my search for the source of my internal bleeding continued for a decade. When he retired, his replacement wanted to know why I hadn't been back after they removed a bleeding polyp with a 'not good' biopsy. Upon awakening after that follow-up, I was told that normally they remove lesions with a laser, but since I had so many of them they didn't bother and put me on medication.
Long story short, it all cleared up after the divorce. The stress from my abusive marriage was turning my gut into Swiss cheese.
I was checked out 19 years ago, however, there was a problem. They were using the rig that can look at the entire system, if polyps are found early on. They determined they should look at the rest. Well, they tried. Everyone on the crew, (3 or 4?) took a stab at it. (Kind of what it felt like!) They could not manage to get it to maneuver around the first turn. I was the last patient of the day, and week, so they scheduled a return for the following week. My health coverage, along with the contract job, ended two days later, so it didn't happen.
So, my question is: have they got a better tool now, that can turn tighter than the units in use back then? Punching a hole/tear during this procedure is a known issue(including fatality stats), and since I seem to be an outlier in lots of health areas, I'm not willing to take that chance if the gear hasn't been improved. Anyone have some insight into this problem?
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