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Yep! I said Potty. Every ten years after 50 years of age, you are required to have a colonoscopy to detect colon cancer. It\u2019s a proactive test that can save your life.<\/p>\n
So, you see your doctor and during the examination your doctor asks when you had your last colonoscopy.\u00a0 Of course you don\u2019t remember when, but you do remember what you went through, that\u2019s for sure.\u00a0 This is my question; \u201cWhere does all that crap come from?\u00a0 You can\u2019t believe how much stuff can exit your body and at Mach speed too!<\/p>\n
You go to your pharmacy, give them the Rx and they tell you which aisle you can find the Simethicone Tablets<\/em> on.\u00a0 So you go looking and looking because you won\u2019t find anything called Simethicone<\/em> anywhere.\u00a0 However, if they told you to get “Gas Relief” tablets your search would have gone much faster!<\/p>\n On the first day you do not eat any solid food.\u00a0 You can drink broths, clear liquids and eat Jell-O<\/em>.\u00a0 You have to have 200 calories each hour to keep your sugar level as stable as possible.\u00a0 I drank French Onion<\/em> and Chicken Noodle<\/em> soup that were strained and it was awesome.\u00a0 I\u2019m surprised how easy it was and how good I felt throughout the day.<\/p>\n At 5:00 pm the night before my test, I begin by mixing another pouch of the A stuff with a pouch of B stuff, then add water and shake.\u00a0 If you’re smart, you add two individual packages of Crystal Light<\/em> lemonade mix and if you\u2019re smarter still, drink the potion through a straw.\u00a0 It\u2019s easier that way because the straw helps the mixture go down your gullet much easier!<\/p>\n It takes about an hour to drink this mixture and I binge watch a couple of things On Demand<\/em> until the flood gates start to do their thing.\u00a0 Initially, I begin counting how many trips I make to the John, but then I decide to stop counting because I have to concentrate on reaching the crapper (aptly named) without leaking any of this stuff where it didn\u2019t belong.\u00a0 Believe me, I have several \u201cphoto finishes\u201d during this process.<\/p>\n So it\u2019s the morning of the actual test and the second batch of the A and B potion go down in record time, because I know I\u2019m almost at the end of that tunnel.<\/p>\n I have friends who had a colonoscopy who had no symptoms and literally saved their lives because of the test.\u00a0 Removing a polyp is a simple snip, and it sure beats removing a tumor!\u00a0 Bottoms Up!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Yep! I said Potty. Every ten years after 50 years of age, you are required to have a colonoscopy to detect colon cancer. It\u2019s a proactive test that can save your life. So, you see your doctor and during the examination your doctor asks when you had your last colonoscopy.\u00a0 Of course you don\u2019t remember …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":2855,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[343],"tags":[464,463,373],"class_list":["post-2809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dear-heather","tag-cancer","tag-colonoscopy","tag-health-care"],"yoast_head":"\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/travelingboy.com\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/colonoscopy.gif\")
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