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Colon screening saves lives and saves money. That's right--precancerous cells can be detected and removed during colon screening tests, thus preventing them from turning into Cancer! If you are aged 50 or above, or your doctor recommends you have colon screening due to various high risk conditions, DO IT! It's really, really not that bad......as long as you know the inside scoop.
So here's the inside scoop (or should I say poop?)!
After doing pre-procedure bowel preparation regimes a few times, a lady learns a few tricks.In this case, these tricks make the difference between Hell on Wheels and a mild inconvenience.(Of course this is all pretty subjective, but here it is FWIW. And make sure you run all this by your doctor and follow his/her recommendations.)
Shopping list:
Ginger herb tea
Peppermint herb tea
Clear liquids (low-sodium broths, juices, sodas)
Baby wipes with aloe (1 box of 72 oughta do it)
2 pairs comfy, warm ankle socks that don’t fall off when you turn over in bed
Stretchy pants
Super-comfortable bra, if you wear one (sports bra perhaps)
5 days before:Stop eating all red or purple foods/drinks, nuts, and seeds.
2 days before:Eat soft, low-fiber foods.Have a late night high-protein snack.Drink plenty of fluids, get a little exercise, stretch, and take a hot bath.
Pack your procedure bag. Bring your reading material, a pillow/blanket for the car, a plastic bag and towel (just in case you vomit), the address of your destination, a spoon and peanut butter for a quick protein jolt afterwards.
Set out your outfit for procedure day as well. I find the procedure rooms to be ice cold, but you can wear your socks and top under your gown. That's why I wear something long-sleeved. I wear stretchy pants because it's much more comfortable if you need to slouch in the car on the way home.
1 day before:Take anti-nausea pills as directed (make sure there’s no red dye in them).Fill a pitcher with ice water.Put your Baby Wipes in the bathroom.Get a piece of paper and pen.Make a chart, each row being the hours between 8 am and bedtime and label columns:Pico-Salax, liquids, anti-nausea medication.Record your activities to make sure you are following the regime recommended by your doctor.
Get blankets ready as you might feel really chilly once you take the solution.From now on when you go to the bathroom, use the Baby Wipes, even if you don’t think it’s necessary. Believe me, you’ll thank me later.
Light some candles in the bathroom to pretend you’re giving yourself a nice spa treatment.It also helps with the odor. ;)
Keep your pitcher with ice water nearby so you don’t have to keep running to the fridge.
Take Pico-Salax—the directions on my package said to drink 1 sachet dissolved in 5 oz. of water, at 8 am, and repeat at 2 pm.This is actually a pleasant tasting drink reminiscent of orange Tang.It is made with citric acid and sugar but doesn’t have an orange color.(My physician commented that the bowel was well prepped.)
Serve it over ice in a Martini glass with a tiny paper umbrella.Wear your sunglasses and pretend you’re on the deck of a cruise ship enjoying a Pina Colada. ;)
Drink clear liquids as directed.Don’t go overboard with juices and sodas; the sugar overload can add to nausea.Stick to water, a little clear broth, and herb teas.Even if you’re not into herb tea, I highly recommend peppermint tea and ginger tea—great for nausea and not terribly bad tasting.I tend to steep it much longer than the directions say so it’s not too bland.
Broths—make sure there’s no red or purple stuff in them.You can strain them over 5 coffee filters if you’re not sure they’re clear enough.
Take naps often. ;)
Procedure day:Drink as many liquids as permitted.If you tend to be nauseated after anesthesia, ask for anti-nausea medication in your IV.
Afterwards I recommend not sitting up until you’ve farted a generous amount (about half a dozen times or so).I did that once and apparently I trapped the gas in my abdomen.I was in excruciating pain in the middle of the night.To do the procedure, air is actually pumped into your colon to inflate it.You have to get it out afterwards or you’ll be in terrible pain.
Relax as much as you can.The worst part is the prep.The procedure is easy peasy.
In a nutshell: Channeling dead spirits was popular in the 1980s. The Australia tv show 60 Minutes hired James Randi, famous skeptic and magician, to create a fake channeler to see if the public swallowed it.
He made up a fake bio for his student, including fake public appearances in many cities. He issued press releases and the media swallowed the story hook, line, and sinker. They ran the story without even verifying it.
Later when the channeler revealed his ruse, he received letters saying, "Don't listen to the media. We still believe in you." 8-
A New York City police officer who had just gotten off duty was fatally shot late Thursday in East Harlem by a fellow officer who mistook him for an armed criminal....
So what is it with certain Xian groups and their peculiar clothes?
There is one particular group—not sure what it is, maybe 7th Day Adventists or Born-Again Xians—that has attire all its own. It’s as if they are orbiting in their own universe, in a bubble, completely oblivious of fashion outside its own little microcosm.
First of all are the hats. I mean, I love the hats. I personally look terrible in them, but I think they are way kewl. They’re really sculptural—architectural even. The colors and embellishments are resplendent. Who doesn’t love an excuse to wear feathers?
{I wonder what the hats are all about though. I suspect they’re required for women to show submission to males as mentioned in the Bible, which is sick. If so, I take back all my compliments about the hats.}
Below the neck, that’s where they lose me. I guess I’d get kicked out of that church for my sensible shoes, let alone my resolute refusal to believe that penis people are superior to non-penis people.
Let me just digress for a moment to tell you about an important civil rights issue that’s largely ignored: women’s shoes. They are beautiful, tiny torture devices. No woman’s foot is shaped like a point. To train your toes to point inward is really an aberration of nature, and we should all be up in arms about it.
Instead, we l-o-v-e our torture devices. We pay lots of money for them. We ooh and aah over them in the shop window. Can you imagine us doing this if they were devices designed to beautify and permanently deform our hands? Of course not.
Furthermore, it is not terribly normal to walk around on a spike. Platform heels—I don’t mind those as much. At least your foot can be fooled into thinking it’s on the ground. Hiking your heel up a few inches in the air, while leaving the ball of the foot on the ground to absorb the shock, is an idea conceived by a misogynistic serial killer—I’m sure of it.
Is there an evangelist uniform? I saw about 150 of them outside a church recently, and I’d say 90% of them were wearing hats, strange sparkly clothes, and muffin tops.
What’s up with wearing shoes that are 3 sizes too small? It creates a ‘muffin top’ sort of effect on the foot, whereby the swelling and fat around the ankle and top of the foot form a puffy crest over the top of the shoe. Bizarre.
And why all the sparkles and lace on the clothes? It’s not the Oscars, for Pete’s sake. Does Jesus love you more if you wear bugle beads and sequins? Does glitter get you a promotion to a higher level of Heaven? Does lace trick St. Peter into thinking you’re extra holy when you’re being checked in at the pearly gates?
And one more thing: suits. The glitter is on suits, not dresses. Oh, the suits have different colors and somewhat varied shapes, but they’re all definitely suits. Jacket with buttons and a matching skirt (generously below-the-knee of course). The jackets have dangly beaded thingees with sequins attached. Or lace made from metallic thread. Maybe it’s just for convenience, so they don’t have to run home and change their clothes before heading to the disco after church.
There's so much material here. hmmm....Where to start?
This dude begins by saying the Earth is a cube with 4 corners and our clock is an evil plot. It continues with incoherent ranting and raving about the stupidity of Americans, God, and the fact that it's ok to kill nonbelievers. Yeah, you read that right! /:| Need I even mention the requisite racist comments?
Oh, I know, you're thinking, "How can he get the Hot Mess Sundae Award in the Delusional Bible Guy category?" Well that's because I just lump 'em all together. ;)
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What can I say? A friend gave me these beauts. The envelope has writing on both the front and the back, in ALL CAPS of course, with some random words highlighted in electric yellow. Inside there are a few pamphlets, all with crosses and Jesus on them. The black-and-white one is particularly strange. Random words are in ALL CAPS, bold, or underlined in red.
Apparently if you become a member of the Seed Harvest Plan (some donation scheme no doubt), you will be cured of Cancer, addictions, and of the ever-so-terrible Low Income Syndrome. Yes, all you have to do is donate your cash to this group and God will zap you with his Special Wealth Lightning Bolts.
There are two pages of testimonials. Curious--God seems to dole out his Financial Blessings in small doses. He seems to give only $3000 - $24,750. Maybe the economy is hurting the Almighty too.
Of special interest is the sealed inner flyer that says, "IMPORTANT - Only break open this sealed prophecy after you have put this Postcard and your prayer requests back in the mail..." [No, that's not me going crazy with my caps button. It's actually captialized that way.]
So we broke open the seal without sending the cash, of course. We were hoping for lottery numbers. What we got is an entire page in ALL CAPS again, that says a load of nothing. Well, I take that back. It does say I will feel the INNER POWER OF CHRIST GROWING INSIDE ME.
I think I do feel the inner power growing inside me!!!1! Or is that just the bran muffins I had for breakfast?
Have you seen the new ad--I think it's for some sort of gum--set in a laundromat? I can't even remember what product it's advertising, since the plot is so stupid and bizarre.
A couple is in a laundromat I think. They kiss, and all of a sudden, the woman starts spinning around while still maintaining full lip contact. The camera goes back to show the full body shot. Kind of looks like a windmill.
Very strange, and somewhat disturbing really. I'll post a link to the video if I find one.
I am still seeing his mug on infomercials for his book, even though he’s allegedly a convicted felon, keeps writing books that get poor reviews, and in the past was ordered by a federal court not to do infomercials for his books.
For the best entertainment, read the book review by “J. FERRARA ‘Jay’”.It’s really hilarious.
Here’s a snippet from Jay's review:“Wow what can I say except I have never read anything quite like Debt Cures before in my life! It was a total surprise. I can't believe this got published. Is this a 2nd grader writing a composition for a teacher who wanted information about clearing up credit card debt? Instead, out of protest he writes a book of twenty-four chapters of mostly repeat information. About sixty percent of the book is repeated over and over. What are usable lies in about thirty pages of this three hundred page book which can be found in other sources.”
A disease epidemic occurs when there are more cases of that disease than normal.
A pandemic is a worldwide epidemic of a disease."
--World Health Organization
Personally I think some people hear the word "pandemic" and either say it's all hype or freak out, thinking we're all doomed. Neither is what the word actually means.
