Hi Hp... I am trying to catch up on the posts here...there's scattered info from you, something about a colonoscopy...anyway, I decided you need your own thread to keep us up to date on your health, a very important thing you know.
Oh you are too funny! I hate starting new threads, I don't know why.
Sorry for being scattered..I guess I was acting on this bb the way I do IRL.
Yes I soon will have a gen-yoo-ine pain in the ass to accompany the general pain I feel there, and of course my pita husband and kids. The colonoscopy is 5/23. I am calling today to get it scheduled sooner, as I am going on vacation shortly after that and want to be at my best.
This has been a weird year for me. I had a breast lump at 8 months preg (which thank God was benign) and now this. My mind is reeling almost every day at the turn of events of my life. I haven't had anything wrong with me in years. I had a tonsillectomy 30 years ago but I don't think that counts, lol. I told H last night that I am going to go ahead and have the lumpectomy while I am still in the "poor sickly little ol me" mode and get it over with.
I have a terrible feeling about the colonoscopy, and I'm not a worrywart type of person. Foreboding is the best way I can put it. I sincerely hope that this is my mind running away with me. I need some butt jokes from HD to calm me down.
Aside from that, things are going pretty good. My H drew up a chart the other day which was entitled "Overcoming Coldness". (he had a rare BORED day at work) He recognizes that, while his natural preference for solitude is mostly ok, the fact remains that he is MARRIED and that has obligations attached to it. Namely, that he will fight his tendency to shove me away and embrace me instead. He is doing much better since making up this chart thing, but I know him well enough to know that he has these wonderful bursts of activity and then..lapses back into his old routine.
We've been trying to ML a bit but the pain prevents penetration beyond, say, 3 inches. Oh joy, right! It is not that satisfying for either one of us but it's better than nothing.
Gotta run; MIL is due for a visit and the last thing she'd want to see is a computer screen emblazoned with the words Sex Starved. LOL
I wanted to relate one more story: My H was concerned, when I first told him about the colonoscopy, that my hospital gown might come undone and the doctors and/or nurses might "see" me. Firstly, I wondered why this didn't bother him when I had the laparascopy done. I mean, a male nurse actually shaved me on the top o' the bits, which is something he is not enthusiastic in doing for me, so how much more exposed could I get?
Secondly, I had to remind him that the procedure itself is pretty humiliating..what do I really care if my gown accidentally falls open? Can it GET any worse than the procedure itself?! I think not.
I thought this was uncharacteristic of my H--he is prudish, to be sure, but he does not seem to notice or care about other people noticing me. There have been a few times when he makes remarks and they always take me off guard. Most of the time he seems quite oblivious to me. Once, we were in a restaurant and a man came up to him and said, Your wife is so beautiful, I just had to tell you that. This not only did not faze him (the guy was in his 70's I should add), he suddenly became "tuned in" to this guy and irritated by him..by the way he was talking to the waitress, the way he was eating his food, everything. The fact that the guy just ogled his own wife was not even on his radar. I find this strange! Though I am not as in tune with visual things as men are, I still would sit up and take notice if another woman came up to me in a restaurant and made a comment about him.
Anyway, how did I get off on that tangent? Oh yeah, the gown.
Anyway, I'll be glad when it's all over and they get to the bottom of things. That was for you, GGB, and too bad Hairy won't play with us.
Gosh, honey, it's always something, isn't it! I hope the docs can figure out where your pain is coming from and fix it pronto.
I've had a colonoscopy and it isn't all that bad. I figure the doc and nurses have done this a zillion times and it's no big deal to them. The doc who did mine was pregnant at the time. The one thing that was weird is that there's a tv screen there (full color) and you can get a much closer look at your insides than you ever wanted to. But the weirdest part wasn't after the tube/wand was inside, it was before they started, seeing the wand on the screen as it approached the <ahem> opening. Yikes! THAT'S a picture you don't soon erase from your mind!
The gown thing is strange, but it reminds me of something else you said about him a while ago-- I can't remember what-- and I'm going to give the same response I did at that time: I think he's terrified that something might really be wrong with you and the gown issue is an unconscious deflection of his emotions. He focuses on the gownage because he can't let himself even think about the possibility of (God forbid) something really being wrong with you.
Yeah, I guess I am being a bit cheeky. I too was hoping HD would butt in, but I see he's decided to SIT this one out. Anyway, I'm sure you're looking forward to getting the straight poop from your doc (I hope he isn't an A$$hole about it). Not to worry, you'll be up and running soon!
HP, FWIW, I have to get an endoscopy every year to monitor a condition known as Barrett's esophogus (basically pre-cancerous mutation of the stomach lining at the esophagus due to acid reflux). It is similar to a colonoscopy except they go in from the other end. They do administer some sort of anesthetic for it that makes so I can barely remember the procedure. The scoping only takes 5 or 10 minutes. Not sure if they do the same when sticking it in the other end or not (perhaps not, I think they may do it to suppress the gag reflex). The worst part of the whole thing is the doctor's bill.
