Nick's Bad Date

So for those of you who don't know, Nick's older brother just got diagnosed with colon cancer and underwent some pretty significant surgery.  His doctors think he may have been developing problems since his mid twenties, and so it was recommended that Nick get checked out as well.

Nick always told me if he was going to have to have a procedure or any other typer of surgery that involved needles, he would rather just die.  So I was very proud of him for being brave and having a colonoscopy.

Now for those of you who don't know how it goes, before you can have a colonoscopy, you have to get completely cleaned out.  Meaning a day of no eating and drinking laxatives.  I told Nick I would rather die than do that…….yes, I know, we all have our silly fears.  Suffice it to say, Nick is a trooper about that sort of thing.  I mean, come on, he lived in Central America for two years!  Or at least that's how he kept making himself feel better, hahaha

Thankfully, my visiting teacher offered to watch the boys so I could take Nick in and just focus on that.      We arrived at the hospital around 8:30, got all checked in and then were taken back into a room.  Nick had to change into one of those super sexy hospital gowns, and then we waited for the nurse to come and start his IV.  The gal checking us all in later said to me, he's kind of a high strung kid, isn't' he?  Haha, poor guy, was biting his hand and talking everyone's ear off while they were doing it.  The nurse was student, so of course he missed, and someone else had to come in and redo it.  But it eventually went in, and Nick had a lovely bruise later.

We ended up waiting about 45 minutes before they actually took him away.  I got to sit in his room and watch "Wipe Out" while I waited for them to bring him back to me.  And when they did, I didn't even realize it.  I thought he was just another old man, haha.

The procedure went well.  Apparently Nick asked to be as sedated as possible so there would be no chance of him waking up.  He was pretty smily for awhile there, haha.  When the nurse was telling me how it went she was like, its going to take him a long time to come around.  It was too funny, he was just laying there smiling, saying he couldn't believe it was over already.

He said many, super funny things, especially when the nurses told him to "toot out" all the air they blew inside him, he said "fine, it's your wall!"  And as she was leaving, he shouted "I'm all out doc!" One thing he couldn't stop doing was hiccuping, like Dopy.  That was hilarious!  And he had the same short term memory as Dory, we had the same conversation several times.  He kept asking me to take out his IV, and when I told him they needed to leave it in in case there was a problem, he went "well, lah-ti-dah!".  Ok ok, one more!  When I asked him how he was feeling right when he started to come around, he said "the doctor had fun playing in my poop tubes".  Yeah…..no idea where that one came from!

This is the best part though.  He thought he was lucid, but was still ver absent minded after we got home.  After we took care of the animals, he left one of his cockroach tanks open…….and now I get to round them up.  yeay

We'll get actual results on Monday

Good morning, Sleeping Beauty!