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I had it done a while back. Here are my comments and suggestions.
1) They will give you 2 gallon jugs of some liquid some hours before the procedure. You'll be drinking it and thinking, there is no way I can finish all of this, but you'll be a trooper and do your best. Bring a book, it gets boring.
2) While drinking this stuff, you'll eventually feel a little gurgle and rumble in the tummy. Won't be a big deal.
3) At this point I strongly recommend that you stake out exactly where the nearest bathroom is, that you are familiar with what type of belt and pants fasteners you are wearing, and have a clear path to said potty without any old people, dogs or small children in the way.
4) Remember that gurgle I mentioned? Right about now, your abdomen will make a noise not unlike a '58 Panhead with straight pipes and a poorly adjusted carburetor. Do not allow this to startle you, it's perfectly natural. This will soon be accompanied with a feeling of pressure in the lower abdomen.
5) NOTE: during this part of the process, you may feel the urge to sneak a little fart while no one is looking. FOR THE LOVE OF GOD DO NOT DO THIS!!!! That little fart you think you feel is a cruel foreshadowing of what's to come. Remember that little dutch boy with the finger in the dyke (a dyke is a levee or dam, you perverts)? That's a little Dutch fart you have in there.
6) You want to get to that bathroom now. Don't wait until you really have to go, because that will be too late. Some fat lady will walk in there carrying 3 tabloid magazines right when you need it. Like a good concert, you want to get there a bit early.
7) Now that you're alone in the bathroom, you'll be tempted to fart again. See previous warning in step 5. Get yourself positioned, have a seat, and only then, you can go ahead and relax the o-ring.
8) There are several things that will happen in immediate succession at this point.
9) First, what you thought would be a sneaky little toot will resonate through the entire facility like the mating call of a humpback whale. Your schincter will flagellate like the face of that guy on the rocket sled. That little dude with the leiderhosen and the Ricola horn has nothing on you. As a guy, in the back of your mind, you'll be impressed with yourself and wish your friend or wife could have heard that epic tone, feedback and sustain.
10) Second, well....have you ever seen what happens when a car hits a fire hydrant? Or maybe pictured what the BP oil spill must look like underwater at the leak? Turn both of those images upside down and you'll have the general idea.
11) You will be intensely curious to look in the bowl at this point. Do so at your own risk. You may see things that cannot be unseen in there. An Abbazabba you ate in 1972. Some corn although you haven't eaten corn since the Nixon years. That Frito Bandito pencil eraser your older sister blamed you for stealing when you were four years old.
11) Despite drinking a gallon of that stuff, you'll be thirsty from dehydration at this point. That's why you have the second gallon.
12) All of us that enjoy the occasional cocktail know the concept of "breaking the seal". Well, you broke the seal. You should expect 5-10 minute intervals from this point forward. Make sure you pace yourself with the wiping, or you'll end up abrading yourself like a short-bus kid on his first skateboard.
13) You'll notice an amazing thing. Towards the end of this process, you'll be ass-pissing as clear as a rain forest waterfall in Kauai. Your insides will be cleaner than a freshly bathed infant. You'll be 10 lbs lighter.
14) Oh yeah, the colonoscopy. Boring, you'll be knocked out and won't remember anything. Suffice it to say that they jam a camera up there and look around. Remember this when you think your job sucks.
15) BUT (heh), you should know that they will inflate you like the tires on Hunter S. Thompson's Cadillac.
16) I only mention this because as you are coming out of the anesthesia, you'll be laying on your side, your butt exposed to a roomful of people milling about, and weaving a tapestry of fart noises throughout the room as all that air comes back out of you. Don't be embarrassed, they're used to it.
17) Don't forget to ask them to burn a disc of the colonoscopy for you. Using the free Windows Movie Maker, you can set a soundtrack to it. I used "Echoes" from Pink Floyd's Meddle album, it seemed appropriate.
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