So here we go....just a little under 24 hours away from my colonoscopy. Tomorrow's colonoscopy is almost a year to the day from the original scope which found the tumour in my sigmoid colon...the colonoscopy that changed my life forever.
My day started off with taking 2 Ducolax tablets, a laxative, to "get things moving". No solid foods for me today. Lots and lots of clear fluids, broths, water, teas, lemon juice without the pulp, jello (yellow and green only - no reds or purples!). Just recently I downed my first glass (of two) of Pico Salax which is no gentle laxative...it's a purgative...and man are things percolating away down there...foreboding of things to happen very shortly. Sorry to be graphic but those of you that have had a colonoscopy or know about the prep in advance may agree with me that the prep is much more trying than the actual procedure itself. I will repeat the purgative at 8pm this evening - again with no food, no solids, no pulp, no dairy (not that I consume dairy anyway). And if you have my previous posts you will remember that I love to eat...regardless of how cleaned up my diet is I still love to eat FOOD. Solid food. So this is what's on the menu today...
My day started off with taking 2 Ducolax tablets, a laxative, to "get things moving". No solid foods for me today. Lots and lots of clear fluids, broths, water, teas, lemon juice without the pulp, jello (yellow and green only - no reds or purples!). Just recently I downed my first glass (of two) of Pico Salax which is no gentle laxative...it's a purgative...and man are things percolating away down there...foreboding of things to happen very shortly. Sorry to be graphic but those of you that have had a colonoscopy or know about the prep in advance may agree with me that the prep is much more trying than the actual procedure itself. I will repeat the purgative at 8pm this evening - again with no food, no solids, no pulp, no dairy (not that I consume dairy anyway). And if you have my previous posts you will remember that I love to eat...regardless of how cleaned up my diet is I still love to eat FOOD. Solid food. So this is what's on the menu today...
I am cranky. I am hungry. I am visiting the bathroom regularly today....feeling "crappy" and I am trying hard not to think about the colonoscopy tomorrow...I try and focus on the hope that the conversation with Dr. Springer will be very different this year than last. In fact, Victoria and I talked about how we are looking forward to being able to thank Dr. Springer tomorrow for everything he did last March when he heard our cries, saw our faces and the horror and despair we poured out on him at the clinic when he told us the news. Dr. Springer was instrumental in contacting his colleague and surgeon, Dr. Richard Hart, that same day and relayed our story. That I needed urgent bowel surgery to remove a large obstructing tumour and that we were getting married in 5 weeks. Dr. Springer, I never got to thank you. Tomorrow I will. Regardless of the results of tomorrow's scope I will thank you for acting with such compassion and urgency.
After tomorrow it's the CT scan and then the CEA bloodwork. Coming into Round Two in the match. I am in my proverbial corner with the towel wrapped around my head...somewhere in the distance I swear I hear Gonna Fly Now (the theme from Rocky) playing. Ready to come out swinging. Ready to lay a beating on colon cancer. Ready to keep up the fight and kick the crap out of it.
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