This is my brain on drugs

[sqbr]

Just had my endoscopy, and am apparently not allowed to drive or make important decisions for 24 hours doe to being off my skull. So likely anything I say in person or online will be more giberrishish than usual, apologies in advance.

They sent the info booklet or whatever to the wrong address and the whole thing happened at such short notice I didn't have much of a chnce to think of questions etc, so I had no idea what to expect and ended up being way early.
-7am: miss breakfast for fasting. Feel very uncomfortable about this
-8am: decide I am already too grumpy to go online any more
-10am arrive at hostpital. Watch bad tv once I run out of podasts.
-11am: find out the doctor doesn't even arrive till 1:30. Think mournfully on the lunch I packed.
-2pm: get put into a bed. Discover they have Usbourne puzzle adventures!
-3pm: Am very woozy. Book on the religions of India starts to Really Make Sense.
-4pm: Wheeled into room, nice doctor injects me with something.
-4:30pm: Wake up back in ward. FOOD!
-5:30: Cam comes to pick me up. We wobble off for more food and then go home.

It turns out I have a minor hiatal hernia and signs of ulcers, and will find out soon from tests whether I have Coeliacs or heliobacter pilori (both of which I've tested negative to before, but no harm I guess) Also, it turns out my esophagus really isn't very photogenic. Ick.

Comments

[lilysea.livejournal.com]

Book on the religions of India starts to Really Make Sense.

Hee. I like your anecdoting.

Hope you feel less woozy soon (:

[http://users.livejournal.com/doctor_k_/]

wow, snap. Two on my flist get scope on the one day

[shrydar.livejournal.com]

I was about to make much the same comment :)

[nico-wolfwood.livejournal.com]

urg, fun day. Hope you get better soon. (also, you spelt due as doe, was that on purpose? *grin*)

[mandragora2003.livejournal.com]

So... that means that you ended up fasting from dinner time... which would be about eighteen hours... *ouch*

Wouldn't worry about the photogenicity of your upper gastrointestinal tract. Not many are likely to see it. Those who do are likely to be doctors, who can think that *anything* healthy looks good.

Actually, hiatus hernia makes sense.

Sympathy re: drugs.

[anxiolytic.livejournal.com]

mmmm drugs

[tommmo.livejournal.com]

Maybe Sophie can get us some stuff, maaaaaaan. She's a real kingpin, maaaaaan.






Maaaaaaan.

[mandragora2003.livejournal.com]

By the by, do you think that you'll be up for that picnic? Or will you be taking stuff easy? If yes, can I still come? And if so, what should I bring?

[alias_sqbr]

Yes. I'm fine. Absolutely. Picnic food to share.

Did you get my sms? It's from 4:30 in Kings Park.

[mandragora2003.livejournal.com]

SMS? Ummm. Did this happen while I was asleep? If so, then I probably read it, deleted it, and then forgot it; all without actually waking up. Best text me the info again! May I invite Emma and Dieter? I probably won't be conscious any time before 5ish, so don't expect me to arrive before 6. Night shift. Love it.

[velithya]

ah, endoscopies. Hope everything goes well re your results and such!

[alias_sqbr]

Posibly. Anyway, Emma and Dieter are welcome before and/or after you arrive.

[auntpol.livejournal.com]

Usborne Puzzle Adventures were such great books!!

[alias_sqbr]

Thanks. Actually it was kind of cool having an excuse, since I'm often kind of out of it :)

[alias_sqbr]

Hey, I had to contort my stomach to get these drugs, not to mention the whole fasting thing. No way I'm sharing with you.

[alias_sqbr]

Oop! That reminds me I should actually make an appointment to find out what they were :)

[alias_sqbr]

Were they ever!