Minor surgery is surgery someone else is having.

Kind of like the old joke about a depression and a recession: a depression is when YOU are out of work, a recession is when your neighbor is out of work.

is when you fall into an open manhole and die.' - Mel Brooks

You already went through the worst of it. Hope they don't find anything wrong! Or if they do, that it's something easily fixed!

Thinking of you!

my brother.

Hope it all goes quickly and easily.

"Oh Steve, we found something really icky in there".

"APRIL FOOL'S RIGHT ? HA HA. CAN'T FOOL ME".

"No seriously, we did."

"Come on guys, get serious."

I turn 57 this year, so I have 4 more to look forward to ? Death is starting to look better, omg. Joking but I hate this.

etc. Might be more than 5 by now!

if they find polyps they have you come back for another sooner. They nearly always find polyps in me.

All the best to you my friend!

We're all behind you. At a safe distance, of course.

Really--it's not that big a deal once you get past the prep

You'll see

Good luck!!

and Enjoy!!

Hope that the results are good and uneventful.

I don't think I could schedule a procedure for 4/1 ...

Life is good. Thank you all for your kind wishes.

That wasn't so bad, was it?

Doc says I can wait another 10 years for the next one. Good I say!

And I'm glad it's over and done with!!

It does seem trivial when you look at some of the other things going on, many of them with our DU friends.

But I wish you health and joy. I hope your results are good. Go eat something. Just don't go to that bigoted pizzeria.

I hope they suffer for their bigotry and learn a lesson!

You're doing something important for your health and well being. Treat yourself to something special when it's all over... Maybe a nice glass of bubbly?

No one will be able to say you're full of shit today. (Not that you ever are.)

It's awful. There's worse.

The last time I had one, they told me that if I was taking blood thinners, to stop taking them 10 days before the procedure. Thinking, well, they're professionals, they know what they're doing. So I stopped taking the blood thinners ten days before the procedure.

After I got out, my friends who licked me up took me to breakfast. I started to feel dizzy and weak, so much so that I needed to be helped to the car, which I had NEVER experienced before. Once home, I felt the world spinning around me, was short of breath. My housemates, called the colonoscopy people who said whatever it was, it sounded like I needed to get to the emergency room. I made it to the car and got driven to Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas.

I described what I was feeling, and a cardiologist was called. My GP, who was also in the complex was also notified. The cardiologist said I was having a heart attack, and went ballistic when he heard that I had been told to go off blood thinners for ten days. Ten days, you see, is exactly the time an artery needs to re-clog with white platelets that the blood thinners prevent from doing just that. Sure enough, it was my first genuine, US-certified heart attack. Luckily, it was so mild that I suffered no muscle damage (or imperceptible, anyway).

The colonoscopy people knew all about my arterial clogging from my having listed my medical history that time and the two previous times they performed the procedure on me. I will make sure the colonoscopy people consult with the cardiologist well before my next scheduled colonoscopy (5 year intervals if they found nothing last time).

Oh, no. That's next year. Did you HAVE to remind me?