Endoscopy for Beginners

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This article was kindly written for the SDC by member @Nichola.

There are people, I’m told, who enter their autumn years as fit and wiry as they were as teenagers. I’m sure you’ve heard of them. The type that hasn’t taken an Aspro since 1965, when the midwife said it ‘might take the edge off’ after a three-day labour with their Billy…

I am not one of those people.



My medicine cupboard looks like an outpost of Chemist Warehouse. And with good reason. I don’t think there’s an inch of my body that hasn’t been repaired or removed. I blame genetics for this because, let’s face it, it helps to blame something or someone. Our ancestors passed down everything from bad hearts to bad feet.

With my family, it was bad bowels.

There’s nothing romantic or even dignified about bowels. Operatic heroines die from consumption or suicide—not Crohn’s, colitis or diverticular disease.

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Note from the Editor:
This article was kindly written for the SDC by member @Nichola.

There are people, I’m told, who enter their autumn years as fit and wiry as they were as teenagers. I’m sure you’ve heard of them. The type that hasn’t taken an Aspro since 1965, when the midwife said it ‘might take the edge off’ after a three-day labour with their Billy…

I am not one of those people.



My medicine cupboard looks like an outpost of Chemist Warehouse. And with good reason. I don’t think there’s an inch of my body that hasn’t been repaired or removed. I blame genetics for this because, let’s face it, it helps to blame something or someone. Our ancestors passed down everything from bad hearts to bad feet.

With my family, it was bad bowels.

There’s nothing romantic or even dignified about bowels. Operatic heroines die from consumption or suicide—not Crohn’s, colitis or diverticular disease.

Can really relate to this experience of the colonoscopy Nicola! My husband says “you need to strap yourself to the toilet seat to stop your head hitting the ceiling!” I don’t have a cat that follows me to the toilet, I have a Jack Russell!
 
Note from the Editor:
This article was kindly written for the SDC by member @Nichola.

There are people, I’m told, who enter their autumn years as fit and wiry as they were as teenagers. I’m sure you’ve heard of them. The type that hasn’t taken an Aspro since 1965, when the midwife said it ‘might take the edge off’ after a three-day labour with their Billy…

I am not one of those people.



My medicine cupboard looks like an outpost of Chemist Warehouse. And with good reason. I don’t think there’s an inch of my body that hasn’t been repaired or removed. I blame genetics for this because, let’s face it, it helps to blame something or someone. Our ancestors passed down everything from bad hearts to bad feet.

With my family, it was bad bowels.

There’s nothing romantic or even dignified about bowels. Operatic heroines die from consumption or suicide—not Crohn’s, colitis or diverticular disease.

Note from the Editor:
This article was kindly written for the SDC by member @Nichola.

There are people, I’m told, who enter their autumn years as fit and wiry as they were as teenagers. I’m sure you’ve heard of them. The type that hasn’t taken an Aspro since 1965, when the midwife said it ‘might take the edge off’ after a three-day labour with their Billy…

I am not one of those people.



My medicine cupboard looks like an outpost of Chemist Warehouse. And with good reason. I don’t think there’s an inch of my body that hasn’t been repaired or removed. I blame genetics for this because, let’s face it, it helps to blame something or someone. Our ancestors passed down everything from bad hearts to bad feet.

With my family, it was bad bowels.

There’s nothing romantic or even dignified about bowels. Operatic heroines die from consumption or suicide—not Crohn’s, colitis or diverticular disease.

What a great story , I think you just made colonoscopies easier for people and thank you for that.

Can I ask did Chloe ( great name choice by the way ) actually order all those things ? If so you must have a very interesting and very clever cat 🐈 which maybe there are more stories to come
 
Note from the Editor:
This article was kindly written for the SDC by member @Nichola.

There are people, I’m told, who enter their autumn years as fit and wiry as they were as teenagers. I’m sure you’ve heard of them. The type that hasn’t taken an Aspro since 1965, when the midwife said it ‘might take the edge off’ after a three-day labour with their Billy…

I am not one of those people.



My medicine cupboard looks like an outpost of Chemist Warehouse. And with good reason. I don’t think there’s an inch of my body that hasn’t been repaired or removed. I blame genetics for this because, let’s face it, it helps to blame something or someone. Our ancestors passed down everything from bad hearts to bad feet.

With my family, it was bad bowels.

There’s nothing romantic or even dignified about bowels. Operatic heroines die from consumption or suicide—not Crohn’s, colitis or diverticular disease.

Note from the Editor:
This article was kindly written for the SDC by member @Nichola.

There are people, I’m told, who enter their autumn years as fit and wiry as they were as teenagers. I’m sure you’ve heard of them. The type that hasn’t taken an Aspro since 1965, when the midwife said it ‘might take the edge off’ after a three-day labour with their Billy…

I am not one of those people.



My medicine cupboard looks like an outpost of Chemist Warehouse. And with good reason. I don’t think there’s an inch of my body that hasn’t been repaired or removed. I blame genetics for this because, let’s face it, it helps to blame something or someone. Our ancestors passed down everything from bad hearts to bad feet.

With my family, it was bad bowels.

There’s nothing romantic or even dignified about bowels. Operatic heroines die from consumption or suicide—not Crohn’s, colitis or diverticular disease.

Note from the Editor:
This article was kindly written for the SDC by member @Nichola.

There are people, I’m told, who enter their autumn years as fit and wiry as they were as teenagers. I’m sure you’ve heard of them. The type that hasn’t taken an Aspro since 1965, when the midwife said it ‘might take the edge off’ after a three-day labour with their Billy…

I am not one of those people.



My medicine cupboard looks like an outpost of Chemist Warehouse. And with good reason. I don’t think there’s an inch of my body that hasn’t been repaired or removed. I blame genetics for this because, let’s face it, it helps to blame something or someone. Our ancestors passed down everything from bad hearts to bad feet.

With my family, it was bad bowels.

There’s nothing romantic or even dignified about bowels. Operatic heroines die from consumption or suicide—not Crohn’s, colitis or diverticular disease.

Note from the Editor:
This article was kindly written for the SDC by member @Nichola.

There are people, I’m told, who enter their autumn years as fit and wiry as they were as teenagers. I’m sure you’ve heard of them. The type that hasn’t taken an Aspro since 1965, when the midwife said it ‘might take the edge off’ after a three-day labour with their Billy…

I am not one of those people.



My medicine cupboard looks like an outpost of Chemist Warehouse. And with good reason. I don’t think there’s an inch of my body that hasn’t been repaired or removed. I blame genetics for this because, let’s face it, it helps to blame something or someone. Our ancestors passed down everything from bad hearts to bad feet.

With my family, it was bad bowels.

There’s nothing romantic or even dignified about bowels. Operatic heroines die from consumption or suicide—not Crohn’s, colitis or diverticular disease.

Note from the Editor:
This article was kindly written for the SDC by member @Nichola.

There are people, I’m told, who enter their autumn years as fit and wiry as they were as teenagers. I’m sure you’ve heard of them. The type that hasn’t taken an Aspro since 1965, when the midwife said it ‘might take the edge off’ after a three-day labour with their Billy…

I am not one of those people.



My medicine cupboard looks like an outpost of Chemist Warehouse. And with good reason. I don’t think there’s an inch of my body that hasn’t been repaired or removed. I blame genetics for this because, let’s face it, it helps to blame something or someone. Our ancestors passed down everything from bad hearts to bad feet.

With my family, it was bad bowels.

There’s nothing romantic or even dignified about bowels. Operatic heroines die from consumption or suicide—not Crohn’s, colitis or diverticular disease.

Note from the Editor:
This article was kindly written for the SDC by member @Nichola.

There are people, I’m told, who enter their autumn years as fit and wiry as they were as teenagers. I’m sure you’ve heard of them. The type that hasn’t taken an Aspro since 1965, when the midwife said it ‘might take the edge off’ after a three-day labour with their Billy…

I am not one of those people.



My medicine cupboard looks like an outpost of Chemist Warehouse. And with good reason. I don’t think there’s an inch of my body that hasn’t been repaired or removed. I blame genetics for this because, let’s face it, it helps to blame something or someone. Our ancestors passed down everything from bad hearts to bad feet.

With my family, it was bad bowels.

There’s nothing romantic or even dignified about bowels. Operatic heroines die from consumption or suicide—not Crohn’s, colitis or diverticular disease.

Note from the Editor:
This article was kindly written for the SDC by member @Nichola.

There are people, I’m told, who enter their autumn years as fit and wiry as they were as teenagers. I’m sure you’ve heard of them. The type that hasn’t taken an Aspro since 1965, when the midwife said it ‘might take the edge off’ after a three-day labour with their Billy…

I am not one of those people.



My medicine cupboard looks like an outpost of Chemist Warehouse. And with good reason. I don’t think there’s an inch of my body that hasn’t been repaired or removed. I blame genetics for this because, let’s face it, it helps to blame something or someone. Our ancestors passed down everything from bad hearts to bad feet.

With my family, it was bad bowels.

There’s nothing romantic or even dignified about bowels. Operatic heroines die from consumption or suicide—not Crohn’s, colitis or diverticular disease.

Note from the Editor:
This article was kindly written for the SDC by member @Nichola.

There are people, I’m told, who enter their autumn years as fit and wiry as they were as teenagers. I’m sure you’ve heard of them. The type that hasn’t taken an Aspro since 1965, when the midwife said it ‘might take the edge off’ after a three-day labour with their Billy…

I am not one of those people.



My medicine cupboard looks like an outpost of Chemist Warehouse. And with good reason. I don’t think there’s an inch of my body that hasn’t been repaired or removed. I blame genetics for this because, let’s face it, it helps to blame something or someone. Our ancestors passed down everything from bad hearts to bad feet.

With my family, it was bad bowels.

There’s nothing romantic or even dignified about bowels. Operatic heroines die from consumption or suicide—not Crohn’s, colitis or diverticular disease.

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Well done Nichola.....have been through the same exercise myself.....hope that your results were good and that you can again get on with your life with this weight off your shoulders and a smile on your face.
 
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