Nice people thread part 8 - worth the wait

bugslet

Best of luck lir today and take it easy!

Touch wood, I've never had cystitis, so fingers, or maybe it should be legs?, crossed that it stays that way.

I do get occipital neuralgia, which is no fun if I get over-stressed and over-tired.

bugslet

silvercar wrote: »

I heard Ranulph Fiennes speak recently; very entertaining speaker if you get the opportunity.

Given the life he has had, I'd hope so. I have heard him on the radio and he was very entertaining then. And evidently quite a lunatic in the nicest way given the things he has done and continues to do.

lemonjelly

All the best LIR!

Mental note to self, avoid checking out the NPT when eating in future...

lostinrates

I understand people die from avoiding colonoscopies.


All I can say is they are mad.

On my theme from yesterday I have had worse times at some people's homes. And certainly worse dates.

The 'discomfort' can be compared to that second piece of cake you know you shouldn't have had in your skinny jeans, or white bread or pasta when you bloat on it . In fact I have had far worse pasta experiences than that.

I was able not to have much sedation because I was very relaxed and interested so I got to throroughly enjoy the making of the movie, and especially enjoyed the weird horror bits of the taking of the biopsies and the surreality of it not hurting. There was a big discussion about pain relief and that I wasn't having any but tbh I'm not sure what any one 'relatively normal' would have one for as nothing hurts. An inordinate number from what looked to be a throuroughly healthy gut. Nothing particularly sinister was found, (hurrah) which was as we had expected, so no surprises there.

The prep meant nothing embarrassing or untoward happened but apparently I am the first person to have said ' that tickles'.

Seriously, if any one has anything wrong with their innards and is worried about this.....there is NOTHING TO WORRY ABOUT.

The consultant says my prep (which I started a week ago, and upped and the weekend) was perfect and partly why it's so easy, and the food part of the prep is boring. (First thing I asked for when offered food afterwards was an apple, but my consultant has suggested I wait till this evening for fruit and veg, but let me have some fruit juice)

Tbh, I didn't much want to eat afterwards apart from something fresh...but they make you before you leave, So I had to have MORE white bread. (Piece of toast).

Tonight I'm having chicken and VEGETABLES!!!!!!!!

bugslet

Relieved to hear it went so well lir, I suppose it's to do with differing pain thresholds, and some people are just wimps about that kind of thing. I had a similar procdure once and looked at the images because it was far too interesting to miss, same with a colposcopy.

Enjoy your chicken and veg tonight;)

PasturesNew

fc123 wrote: »

Also, if PN is around...I think sometimes it 'takes 2'.
One to have the 'mmmm why don't we do.....' or 'I've had an idea....' then a second who says 'mmmm that's a possibility' and then actions some 'doing' on it to get it going.

Yes, I've always been somebody that could make somebody else's actions happen

No natural talent, just always needed a focus for my organisational talents.

fc123 wrote: »

The 2 people then work in tandem...one of the 2 can get a bit jaded or a bit bored with the grind of actioning the idea (their thing) whilst the other enjoys the hard work of executing it (because the doing is easier than the thinking_)

Watching a re-run of Beeny/Rise Hall and she was asked how she got in it/famous; turned out the business etc was all because of her OH, she was just lucky she met him else she'd have just been a regular person.

fc123 wrote: »

I know that is how OH and I work together...neither of us would be where we are now without the 2 different work ethics combined.

Sucks to be a 1 for many reasons.

fc123 wrote: »

We went down to Margate Sat and went to the talk by Wayne Hemingway on the Dreamland project. He started out similar to us years ago (but is waaay more successful) ...it was very inspiring.

He probably just "knew somebody" in one of those lucky breaks.

PasturesNew

Glad you're feeling chirpier LIR.

silvercar

lostinrates wrote: »

I understand people die from avoiding colonoscopies.


All I can say is they are mad.

On my theme from yesterday I have had worse times at some people's homes. And certainly worse dates.

The 'discomfort' can be compared to that second piece of cake you know you shouldn't have had in your skinny jeans, or white bread or pasta when you bloat on it . In fact I have had far worse pasta experiences than that.

I was able not to have much sedation because I was very relaxed and interested so I got to throroughly enjoy the making of the movie, and especially enjoyed the weird horror bits of the taking of the biopsies and the surreality of it not hurting. There was a big discussion about pain relief and that I wasn't having any but tbh I'm not sure what any one 'relatively normal' would have one for as nothing hurts. An inordinate number from what looked to be a throuroughly healthy gut. Nothing particularly sinister was found, (hurrah) which was as we had expected, so no surprises there.

The prep meant nothing embarrassing or untoward happened but apparently I am the first person to have said ' that tickles'.

Seriously, if any one has anything wrong with their innards and is worried about this.....there is NOTHING TO WORRY ABOUT.

The consultant says my prep (which I started a week ago, and upped and the weekend) was perfect and partly why it's so easy, and the food part of the prep is boring. (First thing I asked for when offered food afterwards was an apple, but my consultant has suggested I wait till this evening for fruit and veg, but let me have some fruit juice)

Tbh, I didn't much want to eat afterwards apart from something fresh...but they make you before you leave, So I had to have MORE white bread. (Piece of toast).

Tonight I'm having chicken and VEGETABLES!!!!!!!!

This is so good to hear. At some point I am going to have to succumb and I have a deep fear of the embarrassment of it all.

lostinrates

silvercar wrote: »

This is so good to hear. At some point I am going to have to succumb and I have a deep fear of the embarrassment of it all.

It's really not so bad, promise. The prep advice I had is longer than most people get. ( I fasted from Saturday night and did the 'light diet' rigidly from Thursday but scaled towards it for the preceding seven days from today. In stead of stating the prep stuff at two as I saw standard advice was I had been tolD to start tension in the morning. This meant I had a slightly longer window had I had difficulty ( I didn't) but also that it was all over so I could sleep undisturbed.

It's less bad than a filling at the dentist or a waxing legs. It's quicker than a pedi/ mani.

That hospital I went to is particularly nice, but I'd say its less bad even than eye clinic with sore things in the eyes. And eye clinic isn't bad at all either.

Its just not as embarrassing as you think. It really isn't. I want a job for some sort of colonoscopy PR council. It's really not bad. Much better and less embarrassing than any illness you might be suffering that you should be getting checked out.

Edit. It was so not embarrassing if it were to convince people to go I'd have one done again in public, asking questions.

misskool

well done! and glad they didn't find anything bad.

i'm exhausted. absolutely thoroughly done and dusted.

but still have to prep for weekend