[Magdalen] I Feel Really Clearn.

[Marion Thompson]

And may you never need to!

Marion, a pilgrim

On 10/31/2015 5:06 PM, Cantor03--- via Magdalen wrote:
> I've spent much of this past week having a complete bowel "work up."
> This was because of some vague lower abdominal pains I've experienced
> this past month.
>   
> They even kept me in hospital one night (Tuesday into Wednesday) and  I
> endured much testing including a Barium CAT scan.
>   
> I returned to the hospital yesterday to have the dreaded colonoscopy.
> The latter process itself is almost anti climactic after one  completes
> the GALLON of bowel cleanser, and then the inevitable results.  It  was
> especially awful, and much harder than I recall ten years ago.
>   
> The good part is that all the tests were negative, and there  seems no
> special
> problem in my bowels to account for the discomfort.  The bad part is  that
> this week long process beat the tar out of me, and I was a complete
> wreck when I was through with the process yesterday about noon.
>   
> Chalk the exhaustion to advancing age, I guess.
>   
> Notable is the much greater need for endless paperwork and  signatures.
> So much for computerization.  There was an 8" stack of papers  by
> the time I was through.  Chalk that up to the mania for  documenting
> preparation for every possible contingency.
>   
> This is the third "workup" during this past two years.  The others  were
> a cardiac workup including cardiac catheterization, and a urinary  tract
> workup, including urethroscopic exam.
>   
> I hope not to repeat any of the three workups ever again!
>   
>   
>   
> David Strang.
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