Well...This episode didn't fit my definition of fun and games

Well, Campers, it's been an interesting week. 

 

The bubbas have finished clearing out the section of the property that the house and horse barn will be built on. That would be me standing in the center.  This week will be devoted to clearing out the area for my Brother's house as well as cleaning up the driveway a bit.  Some of the jungle and old trees are pretty close to it.

That is the good news.  

The rest of the week was one of those weeks,  you know,  you HAVE to go through.

I'd had a checkup with one of my Doctors.  Apparently, between my last physical and this one, I had lost 20 lbs.  Which surprised me as I hadn't done anything too radical exercise wise.  

Although in the last 2-3 weeks, I have started a walking agenda with 6000 steps as my daily goal.  As it stands right now, of the 19 days since I started, I've made my goal 17 times.  I'll explain in a bit why not 19 of 19. But, this walking thing hasn't been going on long enough to lose 20lbs.

Anyhow, back to the Doctor's visit.  He poked and prodded and  couldn't see anything obvious, so he recommended a colonoscopy.

Oh Joy!

Then he said a "Shiver me timbers"  statement

He said "juvat, I don't know what it is, but it could be cancer."

That shut me up pretty quickly.

He then said he thought I should get a colonoscopy as well as an Upper GI endoscopy.  To put it into a Fighter Pilot's vernacular, in addition to sticking a movie camera up your lower posterior anatomy, they were also going to stick one down your throat.

Oh Joy! And, no Beans, they weren't the same camera for both actions.

They scheduled the operation for last Wednesday.  For those of you that may never have had an experience like this, the funnest part (No Beans not funniest!) is the prep.  In case you didn't recognize that last sentence, it's sarcasm. 

They give you this large bottle of liquid and tell you to drink it all at once.  Shortly thereafter, you become one with your toilet.  This goes on for about 12 hours.  

Oh...No eating, drinking anything red or purple, just water.  Not having a very large brain, I was concerned about downloading portions of that out my lower fire escape.

That, by far, was the worst part of the process.  Got all that done, showed up for the episode.  Got knocked out and woke up somewhat later in the recovery room.

The first question I asked the Doc was "What did you find?"

Fortunately, he knew what I was really asking.

"We did not find any Cancer!"

I'm sure that wasn't exactly the terminology, but I got the message.

Thank you Lord! (and Doc!)

I was released later that afternoon (Wednesday).  None the worse the wear for the episode.

Except being hungry as all get up.  But...NOOOOO....you've got to take it easy until tomorrow.  RRIIIIIGGGGHHHHHTTTT!

Chicken Broth and water.  Sounds delicious! 

Oh, Needed a picture for this posting.  

 

 Beans, this is just for you.  This is what my innard's look like. 

Profitez-en bien!  (aka) Enjoy!