Tummy Issues

Going to warn you in advance, this post will probably be TMI, so if you don't want to know all about my tummy issues then stop reading, lol.

About a month ago I had to go to the ER for, here comes the start of the TMI, pooping pure blood. As far as I knew I hadn't been having blood in my stools before this. The night before I had been cramping and feeling like I had to go, for those of you with no gall bladder it felt like how it feels after you eat certain foods. So anyways that next morning it was pretty scary so Dwayne took me to the ER. After checking me over the doctor put in a referral for the GI Clinic here.

Well yesterday was finally my consult appointment with the GI doctor. Yes a month later even with the doctor stressing I should see someone within 3 days, got to LOVE military health care :) After asking me a gazillion questions, ok so maybe more like 50 questions, he puts in for me to have a colonoscopy. I go tomorrow for that. Yes I was even shocked at how fast they got me in for that, I am thinking someone canceled.

So today I start the prep for that. And I swear I am more scared about today than the actual procedure tomorrow. I can only have black coffee, I always drink my coffee with creamer and sugar, and I can't have Pepsi. Those are two of my three addictions so it is going to be hard. I can only have clear sugar free liquids, and for some reason they include black coffee in the clear liquids, lol. I can't have any solid foods, only broth, jello and popsicles. Now I hardly ever eat breakfast, for some reason when I do it always upsets my tummy. So I wasn't worried about that, I figured come lunch is when I would start to get hungry. But nope for the 1st time in as long as I can remember I am sitting here at breakfast time starving. Got to love how your mind messes with your body!

I will also have to drink this horrid drink today and two hours before the procedure tomorrow to "clear out my system". Nowadays they do make a pill that does this, but we all know the military isn't going to splurge for that so they make us stick with the old fashioned yucky drink. I have to drink 8oz of this drink every 15minutes for an hour. Here is my problem with that, it can take me 2 hours to drink a drink normally, and that is with something I like and drinking fast. So it should be interesting to have to drink this yucky stuff faster than I have ever drank before. Dwayne says it will be good practice for my beer experiment, if you don't know about that I will be posting in the coming days about it.

 I am scared for tomorrow, not just of the actual procedure, I will be asleep for it. But for what they may find. I am a googler, and usually it is a good thing. But when it comes to medical stuff sometimes it can be bad. Sometimes when you start looking at symptoms of things it can scare you. So yeah I have been researching like crazy since my ER trip and there are lots of scary things out there to read! Hopefully though it is nothing serious. I am also scared they won't be able to find anything and this was all for nothing, and knowing how the military health system works nothing else will be looked into. So I am torn between wanting them to find something, just not anything serious lol, and not wanting them to find something. Sometimes no information can be scarier than getting bad news.

So please pray for me for tomorrow and please pray for Dwayne and the kids for having to deal with me today and tomorrow with no food, coffee or soda, lol.