Tomorrow I get a colonoscopy - oh, JOY! Soon, like right now, I need to take the peristalsis producing tablets and then, after they work, I get to drink a whole lot of the diarrhea producing liquid. I fear this part more than the actual procedure during which, at least, they gave you good drugs!
I just now opened the blister pack of bisacodyl delayed release tablets. I was afraid they would be huge but they were like tiny pink M&M's. I easily swallowed them but was truly tempted to lick off the hard shell enteric coating as I'm very hungry.
Breakfast was a 12 ounce can of frozen apple juice concentrate. I didn't ask the doctor if this is OK but I know that if I reconstituted it, it would be legal so what's wrong with eating it like a semi-melted ice popsicle? It doesn't have a bunch of artificial junk in it like the ice popsicles I had spouse buy me that I'm not going to eat. Also, I want to avoid drinking too much liquid and getting dysnatremia (ha - look that one up on Google!)
The polyethylene glycol diarrhetic that I'll swill down after the bisacodyl works, cautions against the excessive drinking of liquids afterwards or the body's sodium balance will be upset. So, I think it makes sense to eat the apple juice concentrate unreconstituted to get the calories but not excessive amounts of liquid. I'll take liquids as I need them throughout the day. I have to stop at midnight and have no liquids before the 10am appointment.
I keep thinking of how delicious this or that food would taste so I know I'm getting hungry. I didn't eat "breakfast" until around 11:30am as I was busy all morning.
I showered this morning, cleaned the bathroom, put away my swimming stuff (I lost interest in swimming when it got cold here), and washed two loads of laundry. Spouse will be home soon. He has tomorrow off for Veteran's Day (why in the world did I schedule a colonoscopy for Veteran's Day?) and decided to extend his vacation by only working half a day.