Jack of Harts

Well, the long and the short of it is that the colonoscopy prep was not as bad as I expected. I followed directions and didn’t eat anything the day before. I had some protein drinks and apple juice to make my body think it was eating, and then a lot of water. For those taking notes, Boost Breeze and Ensure Clear are good if you can get them. I couldn’t but found a good substitute. I also mixed the horrid tea up, complete with nice lemon flavor, and fridged it, which helped. Still not awesome tasting, but I’ve drunk worse. And when the time came, I got on the toilet, set my phone up with a movie I hadn’t seen, and spent a couple hours drinking the sludge and then some water as I enjoyed the movie and the stuff did its work. It was actually rather easy.

As I said yesterday, I’ve been going through some tests lately. I’m tired and worn out, sore muscles, my left shoulder was basically nonfunctional for a while, and a lot of other stuff has been going on. Now obviously, I’ve been through a lot of stress lately, both mental and physical, so that could easily be the source of the issues, but the Mayo Clinic has been investigating. One test was a full skin examination due to my family’s history with skin cancer and my age, which is approaching the big five oh. Then I got a full photographing session called a mole study, because I have a lot of those as well. Now the Clinic took a couple chunks out of my skin during the original examination to test because they looked hinky. Well, I just got the results and they are benign. That’s a pretty awesome message to get, let me tell you. That’s one worry I get to give the Oreo treatment. Hold it under the milk and smile until the bubbles stop. 😉