I’m having a capsule endoscopy in a week - delayed from my inpatient stay because tier equipment was broken! Yeah, genetic. Dad had his colon removed.
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I’m so sorry! Hope everything goes well 
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My wife had occasional lower pain but nothing GYN was found to be wrong, and we hadn’t really heard about diverticulitis before. One day she was in a lot of pain, so I called off work and took her to the MD, who thankfully ordered imaging and got us in for the CT right away. But for the wrong reason - she wanted to rule out appendicitis (for a left quadrant pain), which by then the Goog had already told us was likely a descending colon episode. I just kept my yap shut and took her down the street to the imaging place.
The MD at the imaging place called us into his office right after the scan was completed, told us my wife had a ruptured colon, and that the ER was expecting us and gave us DVD of the imaging. Even had written down for us the names of the nurse and attending he’d spoken with.
From home couch to ER admission and IV/antibiotics was about 3 hours elapsed, and this included the ~ 40 minutes she had to wait at the imaging place for the contrast dye to distribute. The on-call colorectal surgeon recommended to give her a week to see if it would self-heal, but it didn’t, so they took the colon out.
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Good luck to you, @mig. I’ve never had it, but a coworker had a bout that landed him in the hospital for about 3 weeks, and my BIL occasionally gets it.
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What’s a capsule endoscopy?
WOW that is quite a tale! How’s she now?
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Thank you. She’s been fine since recovering from the surgery which (had to look) was about 7 years ago. We did learn that she’s a lousy patient. I’d get the kids up and fed and off to school (3 in HS, 1 in MS that year), spend 10 hours with her at the hospital, get the kids fed/homeworked/ready for bed, visit with her a couple more hours until 11 or midnight. Her mom spent most nights there in the room with her.
I love this site. These are common mythconceptions (sic).
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Taxes are done, just in the nick of time. Yay! Didn’t feel like messing with them on Father’s Day; besides, I was busy cooking. I had a 3-pound bone-in ribeye and a similar sized round roast, both of which I’d salted at 1.4% before freezing, about a year ago, as a sort of experiment.
They both turned out great, roasted in a slow oven to medium rare, then pan seared. So pre-salting about 6 hours ahead of freezing didn’t seem to have any ill effects.
In other news, I just finished getting my steak knives sharpened back to razor (well, at least smoothly cutting through limp paper at all points along the blade). Why do we abuse steak knives so? Unless one is using glass cutting boards (!-no-!), it’s the only knife we routinely ram into a vitreous surface.
Maybe I’ll see if I can find some wood plates just for steaks-n-chops.
Anyway, knives done, I need to rest up a couple of hours so I’ll be ready to nap with my grandson around 3-4.
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Holy Carp! I went to the IIB site, and felt myself teetering on the brink of a VERY deep rabbit hole! Maybe some week when I have absolutely nothing on my schedule I’ll dive in.
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Are the steak knives serrated?
I drove 80 minutes to the “video” appt after they informed me I needed to appear in person.
Now I get to have some imaging done. One of the tests involves injecting some contrast dye first. I’m a severe needlephobe and have never had anything this serious done before so naturally I’m terrified.
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Hugs and best wishes!
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Good luck.
Regular edge. Not sure why but I’ve never really liked serrated for anything but bread knives. Maybe I just like the clean slice presentation better.
I do have one of those scalloped or “reverse-serrated” 10-inch meat slicers that I use on larger roasts, but because of the scallops (no points/no teeth) it cuts very cleanly, too.
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Deep breath and don’t look. You can do this! {{{hugs}}}
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I have had several CT scans and other tests utilizing contrast dye.
The good news: you only have to get past the needlephobia once, for them to insert an IV. Then things get taped down and you shouldn’t notice it for the rest of the test.
Depending on what dye and test they’re doing, the only strange part is that the dye might feel warm, and will feel that why throughout your body.
Being warmed from the inside out is a very unusual, but not unpleasant, sensation.
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Not unpleasant, true, but to some people it feels like the urge (or need) to pee, which can seem odd.
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I was unaware of that side effect.
Thankfully, that’s never happened to me.
I was warned I’d feel a warm flush, and might feel an urge to pee. They strongly recommended voiding my bladder immediately before the procedure. It was weird: the feeling seemed to start at the base of my skull, then just quickly proceeded down my body. I didn’t feel it so much in my head.
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