Tuesday's Trekking

This morning after getting up I went for my morning walk and when I came home I made myself a southwestern omelet, a garden burger sausage and a couple slices of sough dough toast. Then I went upstairs to change my clothes to get ready for my gastroenterology appointment at 1045.

I wanted to leave a little early because I had never been to the clinic before and did not know what the parking would be like. We got there about fifteen minutes early and after checking in I only had to wait a couple of minutes before I got called by the nurse.

After he took my height/weight and did the normal medical history routine it was only about five more minutes before I got to see the doctor. He spent fifteen or twenty minutes with me explaining what would be going on and then after a couple more minutes he turned me back over to the nurse again.

This time the nurse gave me a time line as to when I needed to stop taking aspirin, fish oil, cod liver oil and flaxseed oil and various other things. He also gave me a list of things I needed to pick up at the drug store to clean out my system.

Then I got to meet the scheduler to schedule my colonoscopy and fill in the dates to stop doing certain healthy things. Like I will need to stop eating whole grain bread, whole grains and most of the other things that are good for me and that I like. I get to have two days where all I can have are clear liquids and these wonderful things that are suppose to clean me out. As you can probably tell I am really looking forward to this.

From everything that I have heard the prep for the colonoscopy is worse than the actual colonoscopy itself. Anyway I have scheduled it for 1600 on October 17th. The sad part about the whole thing is that I am just now starting to get my bowels regulated again.

So after leaving the clinic we stopped off at the Gateway Christian School office so that Kathleen could pay for something that she had ordered. Then we went to Wal*Mart to pick up my colonoscopy prep items and Kathleen picked up a couple of other things.

We next stopped at Lowe's to check out their bathroom fixtures. We actually bought a new bathroom sink, faucet and a new light. We almost bought a new fan, heater and light combo, but we decided to wait on that just a little while.

We finally got home about 1630 and there was a note on our front door from one of our contractors to give us a call as he was just up the street at one of our friend’s house. He came over and we talked about or cabinets for the bathroom and what kind of wood we wanted him to make them out of. He also showed us some marble tile for the vanity top; it was a black with some flaking in it to give it a really nice look.

Now we need to get a hold of the contractor who is doing the tiling of our floors and walls. He has been hunting and should be home soon. I would like to see if we can get some of this done before I have my colonoscopy, but that may not be possible.

For dinner Kathleen made some rice noodles, pasta sauce and sausage and then had a spinach salad on the side with raspberry dressing. Well, I am pretty much beat tonight, all that shopping has taken its toll on me. So it is good night from here for now.