Exam Day

All done. The first thing I did after the procedure was to get a breakfast burrito. After two days of not eating and sitting on the toilet, it was glorious.

We got to the surgical center at 6:45 am. There were already lots of cars in the parking lot. I signed in and was led to a pre/post-op area. They do a lot of procedures at the center. The patient to my right was also getting a colonoscopy, his third, and the patient to the left was fixing a cataract. It was super busy with lots of doctors, nurses, and anesthesiologists running around. The prep took about half-an-hour. The nurse did have trouble with inserting my IV; it ended up taking three tries to get a good fluid flow. The actual operating room was pretty small. Excluding me, there were four other people in the room for my procedure: doctor, two nurses, and the anesthesiologists. The entire procedure took 20 minutes and when I woke up, I was already in the recovery area.

The doctor found several polyps that were removed for biopsy. He says they’re probably benign, i.e., not cancerous, but we need to wait for the test results for confirmation. Unfortunately, that means I probably have to repeat the test in three years instead of five or ten years.