The Gastroscopy
Today, I’m off for my gastroscopy.
Gastroscopy (Esophagogastroduodenoscopy, or EGD) is a procedure where a doctor examines the upper part of your gastrointestinal tract (gut). The upper gut consists of the oesophagus (gullet), stomach and duodenum. The doctor uses an endoscope for this procedure, so it is sometimes called an endoscopy.
Info from Rudd Clinic
I’ve already had the colonoscopy and the other kinda colon thing where they check your smaller bowel. All of these ‘scopies’ are to find out WTF is causing me to get bloated (and have trouble breathing when bloated) all the time.
We’ve ruled out bowels, now he’s gonna run a camera down inside me. I don’t know what this will show, if anything, especially since it’s the ‘upper’ part of me, so I’m not expecting any bad news.
So I couldn’t eat after midnight (as if I usually eat after midnight) and I can’t drink anything for four hours before the procedure. Well that meant from 9:30 this morning I couldn’t drink anything. So I sucked back about 5 tea’s when I woke at 6:45 and snuck a Tim’s in there too. I’ve got another two hours until this thing starts and the first thing I’ll do afterwards is head off to Tim’s to get my fix.
Then it’s back to work tomorrow. I hope they’re not thinking I’m too expendable, having to go for all these procedures and not being busy at the same time. They might start thinking, ‘hmmm, she’s not here again and WTF is she doing when she is here?’ Nope – not gonna go there.
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is the new 30. I want the world to close their mouths when they’re eating or chewing gum. If they don’t, I want to elbow them in the face.
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