Posts Tagged ‘colonoscopy’

No Pokie in Hynie

Shawn | September 30, 2008 in Journal | Comments (1)

My imagination runs wild sometimes..

It’s that part of the show where Shawn is old enough now so that he has to get his prostate checked every so often and even more unpleasantly, get a colonoscopy. Pretty exciting I know! Glad I shared?

I have been having some hellacious cramping and um ..urgency for 2 or 3 years off and on and I finally got tired of just dealing with it and went to a Gastrolenterologist. He did exactly what I thought he would, tried to blame dairy, prescribed me Bentyl and called for a colonoscopy. It’s not the discomfort of having a long tube shoved up my pooper that’s got me fretting (well not entirely), I mean I’ve been through a few fairly intrusive surgeries. My new health insurance Deductible is 5 bills so I was hoping there was some other way. I kept a food diary and returned a month later, the doc and I still mystified decided it might be best to just go ahead with it.

Over the past 2 weeks I decided to try something I hadn’t thought of yet. My brother’s answer to everything I say about my health is always what I eat. I eat bad Ryan I get it. I think it clicked somewhere in my stubborn head this time that I needed to try soemthing new, namely Ryan’s staple food group that we tease him so much about – Fiber! Well, my system has undergone a renaissance these weeks. I haven’t been this long without the ol ‘yucky guts’ in a long time. FiberOne, by the way, makes the best bread ever.

I’m going to forgo the spelunking trip and see where this takes me. What a relief, seriously.