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 Apr 21 2008, 05:32 PM
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 Member  Group: Members Posts: 752 Joined: 23-October 04 From: Greensboro, NC USA Member No.: 103  |
I'm having my first colonoscopy this Wednesday and this thread topic title suddenly came to mind. I guess I'm a little preoccupied! Sorry, hope Doug will forgive me!
-------------------- Jonathan Ward
Manning the LCC at http://www.apollolaunchcontrol.com |
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Apr 21 2008, 05:58 PM
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 Senior Member Group: Moderator Posts: 2817 Joined: 11-February 04 From: Tucson, AZ Member No.: 23 |
Please resist the urge to produce panoramas based on individual frames from the colonoscopy video.
-------------------- &@^^!% Jim! I'm a geologist, not a physicist!
The Gish Bar Times - A Blog all about Jupiter's Moon Io |
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Apr 21 2008, 06:00 PM
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 The Poet Dude Group: Moderator Posts: 5546 Joined: 15-March 04 From: Kendal, Cumbria, UK Member No.: 60 |
Not sure I want to see any, um, "raw" images either...
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Apr 22 2008, 12:17 AM
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I was 'in' (i.e. filming and recording laparoscope feeds ) on 5 laparoscopic procedures earlier in the year. The surgeon in charge is a complete IT nut, and between two procedures I was talking about panoramas and stitching pictures. We wondered if it would work in an inflated abdomen. So he 'panned' around the peritoneal cavity with the scope so I could pull stills of. The end result is a stunning mosaic with a 'roof' of the abdominal wall, and a 'floor' of small bowel. Sadly, confidentiality etc dictates I can't share the results - but it was fascinating. Infact, watching a donor kidney getting put in a plastic bag and pulled out of a keyhole incision with an audible comedy 'pop' is probably one of my top five 'what the hell' moments of my life.
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Apr 22 2008, 12:42 AM
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 Senior Member Group: Moderator Posts: 6474 Joined: 8-December 05 From: Los Angeles Member No.: 602 |
"An audible pop"? Ewwwwwwww...
Don't worry, Ilbasso. I just had one done last month, never felt it, don't even remember it. The technology's come a very long way. About 15 years ago as part of a VA thing for Desert Storm vets I had the unique pleasure of being strapped to a Magic Tilt-O-Whirl table, filled with what felt like about fifty pounds of barium and then spun around at various angles, including upside down, while the doc watched my glowing gut on a flouroscope. Longest hour of my life; I'd take TEN colonoscopies before doing that ever again. -------------------- A few will take this knowledge and use this power of a dream realized as a force for change, an impetus for further discovery to make less ancient dreams real.
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Apr 22 2008, 01:25 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 156 Joined: 20-September 05 From: North Texas Member No.: 503 |
I went through that procedure 4 years ago. It's not bad... because you don't remember a thing about it. Assuming your procedure is the same as mine, you are not anesthetized. Instead, a memory-blocker is used, as you must be awake and responsive during the procedure. I may have been squealing like a little girl while it was going on, but if so, no one mentioned it, and I certainly don't recall it. So I assume I was very stoic.
 The strange part occurs when the drug wears off. I remember coming back to consciousness, and asking the nurse who was there about the results, if I had a clean bill of health. She responded politely and with a smile that I was fine. My wife then leaned over to me and said, David, that's the third time you have asked her that. It's bizarre that I was functioning rationally, asking coherent and logical questions, but having no memory at all of doing so, until the third time I had asked. Good luck! |
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Apr 22 2008, 01:32 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 752 Joined: 23-October 04 From: Greensboro, NC USA Member No.: 103 |
I'm not worried so much about the procedure as the prep! Doesn't sound like it will be fun. Perhaps I can get a lot of reading done in the Fortress of Solitude.
-------------------- Jonathan Ward
Manning the LCC at http://www.apollolaunchcontrol.com |
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Apr 22 2008, 01:42 AM
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 Senior Member Group: Admin Posts: 4500 Joined: 15-March 05 From: Sloughhouse, CA Member No.: 197 |
QUOTE (DFinfrock @ Apr 21 2008, 05:25 PM)  It's bizarre that I was functioning rationally, asking coherent and logical questions, but having no memory at all of doing so, until the third time I had asked. That's the fourth time you've posted this story. -------------------- If Occam had heard my theory, things would be very different now.
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Apr 22 2008, 01:52 AM
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Senior Member Group: Moderator Posts: 6474 Joined: 8-December 05 From: Los Angeles Member No.: 602 |
-------------------- A few will take this knowledge and use this power of a dream realized as a force for change, an impetus for further discovery to make less ancient dreams real.
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Apr 22 2008, 02:13 AM
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 Member Group: Members Posts: 509 Joined: 18-July 05 From: Plymouth, UK Member No.: 437 |
I've had a colonoscopy before, which was more or less a total breeze, except that the laxative I'd taken beforehand hadn't fully worked...
However, the proctoscopy the previous week was FAR worse, especially since I was fully conscious while the doctor inflated my lower intestine with air (just like a balloon). Took me hours to get all of that air out afterwards...
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Apr 22 2008, 03:02 AM
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Senior Member Group: Moderator Posts: 6474 Joined: 8-December 05 From: Los Angeles Member No.: 602 |
The Dawn of Humor (possibly a deleted scene from 2001 in an alternate Universe, and please forgive me, Sir Arthur, wherever you are...)
SCENE: A fire in an outdoor setting, with two primitive men sitting on rocks on its perimeter. MAN 1: Bzraaaaaaapppppppp! MAN 2 (smiles): Huh!!! Huh huh huh huh huh huh huh huh huh.... (Music rises to triumphant crescendo as the first laughter is heard on Earth...) It's gotta be in our very genes by now...
-------------------- A few will take this knowledge and use this power of a dream realized as a force for change, an impetus for further discovery to make less ancient dreams real.
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Apr 22 2008, 09:26 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1869 Joined: 20-February 05 Member No.: 174 |
This conversation is positively... dis-gut-stink!
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Apr 22 2008, 09:38 AM
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The Poet Dude Group: Moderator Posts: 5546 Joined: 15-March 04 From: Kendal, Cumbria, UK Member No.: 60 |
I wonder if he'll film it and put it on MyTube..?
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Apr 22 2008, 10:20 AM
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 Special Cookie Group: Members Posts: 2149 Joined: 6-April 05 From: Sintra | Portugal Member No.: 228 |
QUOTE (Stu @ Apr 22 2008, 10:38 AM) I wonder if he'll film it and put it on MyTube..? -------------------- "Ride, boldly ride," The shade replied, "If you seek for Eldorado!"
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Apr 22 2008, 12:52 PM
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Senior Member Group: Moderator Posts: 4162 Joined: 19-April 05 From: .br at .es Member No.: 253 |
QUOTE (Stu @ Apr 21 2008, 08:00 PM) Not sure I want to see any, um, "raw" images either... In that case *don't* open this one. 
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