A Bit Limp

I'm doing better this morning, but yesterday was A Really Bad Day.

Backstory: A year ago, I was scheduled for my first-ever colonoscopy (yay for getting older, but also yay for not dying of colon cancer, so there's that). The day before, as you may know, you're on a liquid diet, and in the afternoon you start drinking the prep liquid that clears out everything that's left. Unfortunately for me, that Sunday a year ago, I got a terrible migraine in the afternoon, and before I was even due to start drinking the goop, I was throwing up. There was no way I could keep the stuff down, so I had to cancel the procedure. (Oh, the guilt!)

I put off and put off rescheduling it, but back in August, I finally made myself do it--for September, which I then rescheduled again when September got so crazy. Today was supposed to be the day, which means that yesterday at four, I was supposed to start drinking the prep solution.

However, the same damned thing happened again. Mid-afternoon, I started getting a headache, it got worse and worse, and by three, I was throwing up the chicken broth and jello that was all I'd had to eat. By four, I couldn't keep down water, and yet my body just kept trying to vomit. It was utterly miserable. I quickly went from "do I have to cancel, again, really?" to "I wonder if I should go to urgent care for this?" I kept lying down and resting, then getting up, having a small drink of water, and throwing up again.

Horrendous.

So now, I know I have to reschedule the damned thing, and I don't want to. I mean, it's probably a coincidence that this has happened twice on prep day, but I only get a few of these terrible migraines a year: this was only the second one this year, and I had three last year, but before that I went three and a half years without one! It's just such a coincidence. I'm going to have PTSD next time.

I'm also rather annoyed that I have now twice done the "week of no advil and be careful what you eat" and at least partial days of no solid food, and all for naught.