Colonoscopy

            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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