Well, today was the day. Actually yesterday was. For the few of us over the half century that know, no more explanation is necessary. For the others, well, the medical term is a colonoscopy. The procedure is not bad, and I was out in 90 minutes. But the preparation is some nasty crap!
4 years ago, they gave you a bottle of fleet to drink. This is a powerful diuretic, and tastes like slug slime! OK, I have never tasted slug slime, but if I had, I would imagine it to taste like this. There simply is no other way to describe it. So when making my appointment this year, I asked if they had anything better than Fleet. "sure! Fleet did not work that well" (it didn't? I was clean as a whistle afterwards, even if half my tastebuds had died due to abuse) "We have something better and you can flavor it."
Something better is Halflytely, and the only difference between it and Fleet is the amount you drink. In other words, it was watered down Fleet! And you had to drink a quart of it! I managed to down it by putting ice in the glass (which meant more glasses) and finally getting it down around 9 last night. And the flavor packet? Useless!
The second worst thing - or if you are on a diet, I guess you could say it was the best thing - is the fasting. Roughly 36 hours of it. NO solids! No crackers, no nothing! So by the time the procedure comes around and the nurse and doctor are asking you if you are nervous or concerned, you tell them no (at least I did). "but you look like it". No, I am just trying to think of what the first thing I am going to eat when it is over!
So off they go, off you go into lala land (and then when you wake up you feel you are on some time of drug as you are just kind of floating and you know, mellow, and hey man! Peace). After all is said and done, your happiest thought is - IT IS OVER!
And so it is. For another 5 years. No polyps this time. I got a clean bill of health (and a clean other orifice as well. 
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So same time, in 5 years, and I wont think about it for the next 4! Ahhhhhhh!!!!!!!