Well, tomorrow is my colonoscopy and I have 3 days to prepare. Yesterday I couldn't eat any thing with fiber in it, which is pretty much my normal diet. I could have white bread, peanut butter, butter, lunch meat, mayonnaise, and other stuff. It was definitely not a difficult diet to follow.
Today, however, it's all clear liquids. For breakfast I had apple juice and lemon-lime jello. For lunch I had chicken broth, apple juice and lemon-lime jello...and that's what I'll have for dinner too.
In addition, I have to drink 8 oz of water every hour (fairly easy, since I drink so much water anyway), Ned also made me some apple juice popsicles.
But then...I'm writing this at 5 and will add a PS later... at 6 I start taking half a gallon of the liquid laxative, 8 oz every 15 minutes. Should take 2 hours to take it all and then I finish the other half in the morning 3 hours before we go to Kaiser. I remember the laxative from when I had a sigmoidoscopy and I know it tastes terrible, but I have apple juice and ginger ale to drink along with it and I hope I can get through it without too much discomfort.
I'll definitely be glad when this is all over.
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PS - The drink isn't nearly as awful as what I had before my sigmoidoscopy. i drank it with apple juice, but really didn't need the apple juice. Whew!
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PHOTO OF THE DAY
Makes me want to cry.
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