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All joking aside—I’ve told way too many poop stories and probably hit my record of excessive posting the day before my colonoscopy —I had another episode from 7:00 last night to 7:00 this morning. I was beside myself with pain and midway through the night, I cried to Ken, “I want to go to heaven.” […]

Well, I finally had my colonoscopy today; got home this evening around 5:00. Jumped in the bathtub (chilled), hobbled around (pain), managed to drink half a protein shake (getting the shakes), took a 51-minute nap according to my Fitbit (exhausted from the last two days plus pain) and opened my Facebook app (to try to […]

You know you’re in trouble when the colonoscopy/EGD-prep insert is as big as your body. I have to stop drinking altogether in two minutes and get to repeat step 2 in five hours. Not exactly what I want to set my alarm for. I’d rather be jetting off to Hawaii on a red-eye. Besides, I […]

This is why me and Katie are friends. Yesterday, I texted her, “I’m gonna need a demo singer one of these days. Let me know when you have a spare moment. We will have to do it in between my colonoscopy and normal life.” She responded, “Oh I’m ready when you are!!! When is your […]

I’m sure a lot of people go in to have a colonoscopy thinking, “Oh my word…are they gonna find cancer?” Me? I’m thinking things like: A) Did I stop eating those sunflower and pumpkin seeds soon enough? B) I wonder how much popcorn the doc will find in there. C) I hope the prep scrapes […]

Doing my colonoscopy/endoscopy prep today while Ken (the meanyhead ) is eating spaghetti, homemade cornbread, salad, and all kinds of other yummy food. I’m holing up in my office so that I don’t smell any food or make eye contact with the fridge. I only pop out once in a while to drink beef broth […]

Yesterday, all I had were three protein shakes and all my supplements. Sort of a pre-prep prep—say that ten times fast—for my colonoscopy/endoscopy happening tomorrow. Without thinking, last night around 7:00, Ken says to me, “Hey, Mer, you want some popcorn?” Yes. Duh. And a salad, sprinkled with sunflower seeds and pumpkin seeds. How about […]

With my colonoscopy/endoscopy prep happening today and tomorrow, I probably picked the wrong time to be on our last package of toilet paper.

My colonoscopy/EGD prep starts today. Let’s see how many poop jokes I can come up with. 

Two years ago, I went to Nashville with a friend to record “Turmoil” and “Weep.” I’ve talked about this before, but while we were there, we went to Belmont University and walked around the campus in the snow. I used to be envious of people that got to go to college. I didn’t have the […]