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​You'll Never Be Quite the Same

Colonoscopy

10/28/2019

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            Really? You’re going to write about that?
            Yup – it’s all part of the 60th year. Myriad thoughts passed through (!) during this little adventure.
  • Who knew I ate so many seeds? For five days prior, I had to cut out tomatoes, bananas, seeded breads, oatmeal husks, strawberries. Lots of things in restaurants come with seeds. Damn.
  • Not eating on that last day was hard, especially around other eating people. TV food commercials are designed to torture fasting people.
  • Prep night is a long, lonely odyssey. Little sleep. A low point for self-regard. Lady Macbeth kept coming to mind – “Will these hands ne’er be clean?”
  • I weighed under 130 on my bathroom scale in the morning for the first time in 15 years. Is that a triumph, or is it sad that my weight should matter to me right now?
  • Rachel Field died of colon cancer. Like many biographers, I had feelings of uncanny connection with my subject during my years of research. What if I get colon cancer too?
  • The procedure itself was a piece of cake. Ooh! I want a piece of cake now.
  • Katie Couric’s first colonoscopy was televised, which bumped up screenings significantly. In her 10-years-later, second colonoscopy video, she drags along a 50-year-old friend, first-timer, who thanked Katie profusely afterwards. She had a concerning polyp. Lucky they found it early.
  • I don’t have colon cancer. Yay! Time for a nap.
  • If you're 50, get it done. 
           
My 60th year in 60,000 words
Day 62: 235 words, TOTAL = 10,135; 49,865 remaining

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    Robin Clifford Wood is a writer and writing teacher.  She lives  in central Maine with her husband and dogs, loves to be outdoors, and enjoys ever-expanding horizons through her grown children and their multi-species families.

    To read about the "60th year in 60,000 words" challenge, go to the August 27th blog post. 
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    https://www.robincliffordwood.com/youll-never-be-quite-the-same---blog/tomorrow-is-launch-day
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