Marilyn's Musings

What am I talking about? A colonoscopy. If you've never had one, believe me, it's not something to look forward to. Actually, it's the day before that's worse. You have to drink what seems like gallons of the most horrible tasting goop in history. It's slimey and thicker than water. All this must be done between 3 and 7. Meanwhile you can't eat anything solid. Of course once you start the drinking ritual, there's no time for anything else--because you'll be drinking and hanging around the bathroom, if you haven't become permanently planted there. Once you get to the hospital on the day of the big event, guess what? Now you are treated to two enemas. Again, you become well acquainted with a toilet. You'll be hooked up to an IV and given some kind of happy juice that makes you not care too much about what's going on. I understand some people actually go to sleep. I've never been so fortunate. Instead I get to watch what's going on...

I don't know what happened, I was sure I'd blogged yesterday, but it didn't show up--and I probably didn't do it. Yesterday was a busy day. I had a doctor appointment in the afternoon so we decided to go to town and do a bunch of errands. The bank was first, then we headed to Smart and Final where I purchased some supplies for my physical book launch at the Springville Baptist Church. I'm going to decorate the room sort of like a police station--at least I'm planning to put up signs like Rocky Bluff P.D., Interrogation, Fingerprinting, etc. Using the colors from crime scene tape, the table cloths are black, napkins, dishes, cups, yellow. Hoping to get some crime scene tape from a friend. From there we went to Office Max and picked up some more supplies, paper, and the kind of sticky stuff you can use to stick posters to the wall that won't leave any marks. Had two prescriptions to pick up. We ate lunch at Rosa's Italian Restaurant where an ex-daughter-in...