But, but, but…I wasnt making a joke.
Oh darn, I did it again.
Gotta laugh…poop and fart jokes are some of our earliest and most persistent humor.
Working in medicine, we can joke about it, talk about it, and even eat during it without blinking an eye.
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The last time I had the procedure done, the staff told my wife I wouldn’t stop cracking jokes the whole time. I barely remember any of them, but apparently I told the doc that normally, he’d have to buy me dinner beforehand. I guess I also asked one of the staff if it was time for me to smile for the camera.
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Don’t always blame the patient! I was prepped in the hospital, and vomited the prep solution like I was some kind of geyser.
My anesthesiologist was awesome, however.
A later outpatient endoscopy prep used a different protocol, and it did the job without the intractable nausea. Go figure.
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The drugs used for sedation during a colonoscopy…among them midazolam (versed) and propofol are notorious for disinhibiting people and having them say all kinds of things. I cant repeat them here, (or anywhere), but let me say that most are as you can imagine them, but some would be extremely embarrassing if spread outside of the endoscopy suite.
That’s what I got hospitalized for. My dad had the same thing at just about my age and ended up with a total colectomy. No ostomy.
They couldn’t find the source of my bleed. 
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LOL. I used to teach HIPAA; as a word of caution, surgeons using their cell phone cameras to photo funny patient anomalies and share them … well, let’s just say, it’s not good for your career.
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The clear liquid broth they fed me in the hospital was decidedly gritty. Like it was reconstituted from something like Minor’s Chicken Base. Go figure. It wasn’t cream, though.
I add lemon to chicken broth, too.
Some clinics and MDs have different ideas of how they want patients to prepare. I ran what I planned by my MD’s nurse. Some of the packets of instant broth, specifically a miso, would have been too cloudy for how they want their patients to prepare.
I wasn’t sure about green Jell-O since it has a blue pigment in it. Some doctors seem to be okay with green Jell-O.
The lemon lime Gatorade is fairly cloudy. The commercial bone broths were pretty cloudy.
I used a canned Chinese style chicken broth which is very clear and doesn’t have any parsley or herbs floating in it. My own chicken broth made from scratch also isn’t typically perfectly clear.
I didn’t end up using a lemon gelato because it wasn’t clear enough.
I ended up googling prep ideas from the UK’s NHS and the States (mostly Mayo Clinic and Mt Sinai ), in addition to the local hospital sites.
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It’s clear liquid diet day for me today…so far my day has consisted of 1 bottle of Clenpiq, (colonoscopy prep), lots of iced tea earlier and now onto ginger ale. With the second bottle of Clenpiq in the middle of the night…I plan on an apple juice chaser.
Good times, good times…
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I really enjoyed some green apple jello from Sonic! I didn’t know they made “jello”!
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I’ve never seen green apple gelatin in Canada. So many things to seek out in America. haha.
There’s a Jell-O museum just off the Interstate running between Buffalo and Erie.
In LeRoy, NY.
Is this a better alternative to the usual, nasty PREP formula?
Maybe this thread isn’t the best thing for you to be reading then, since it’s pretty much all about prepping for colonoscopies?
Oh weird. I was to,d vanilla yogurt was ok earlier this year.
