The Procedure

After a Friday and Saturday of a 'low-residual' diet - no fiber, no peas, whole grains, no beans or fresh fruit yesterday was an entirely clear liquid diet.  No beer, wine or alcohol either.  

Beginning at 5 PM yesterday I had to begin drinking this.

  
Polyethylene glycol 236 g, sodium sulfate (anhydrous) 22.74 g, sodium bicarbonate 6.74 g, sodium chloride 5.86 g and potassium chloride 2.87 g.  Reconstituted it with cold water and Crystal Light lemonade-flavoring - all four liters of it.  It is singularly the most awful concoction known to mankind. The instructions politely refer to this a a product called 'Golytely'.  After choking down a third of it I discovered what it really is.

It is COLON BLOW!  Designed to flush the bowel and make is squeaky-clean for a journey to the center of the earth.  And you will be up all night running to the can  And you dare not fart.

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Today the procedure went well.  Watched the entire thing on the big screen in the OR.  Good for another 50,000 miles...