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Thumper wrote:Very true. However, the population difference is significant.

SciFi Chick wrote:

Thumper wrote:Very true. However, the population difference is significant.

Hugely significant. To give everyone context, LA County two fifths the population of the entire country of Australia, and California, the state, has MORE people living there than the entire country of Australia.

SciFiFisher wrote:

SciFi Chick wrote:

Thumper wrote:Very true. However, the population difference is significant.

Hugely significant. To give everyone context, LA County two fifths the population of the entire country of Australia, and California, the state, has MORE people living there than the entire country of Australia.

Want to know another interesting trivia item? The State of California Military Department which includes the California National Guard, Air Guard, a few other military organizations, and an actual State Militia is considered to be the equivalent of the 9th largest military in the world.

SciFi Chick wrote:

SciFiFisher wrote:

SciFi Chick wrote:

Thumper wrote:Very true. However, the population difference is significant.

Hugely significant. To give everyone context, LA County two fifths the population of the entire country of Australia, and California, the state, has MORE people living there than the entire country of Australia.

Want to know another interesting trivia item? The State of California Military Department which includes the California National Guard, Air Guard, a few other military organizations, and an actual State Militia is considered to be the equivalent of the 9th largest military in the world.

I know! And aren't they like one of the biggest economies in the world as well? Everyone worries about Texas seceding. We'd be in serious trouble if California seceded.

Thumper wrote:Very true. However, the population difference is significant.

Thumper wrote:That would take considerable research on my part to compare the population density of a small area of the coast of Australia with say a small area of the Eastern seaboard of the US. My early post was an attempt at humor about the possibility of Zee running into "crazies" here vs. there. If I got things factually wrong or misconstrued, I certainly acquiesce.

pumpkinpi wrote:Today is the day that comes around every 3 years that I dread the most. Some of y'all have felt my pain. (Though not many as much as I have, by my count I've had more than 10 of these.)

Tomorrow I have a colonoscopy. So for the past two days I've been on a restricted low fiber diet. It's hard to fill up on that. And today it's clear liquids only. I'm starving already. This afternoon I get to take some medicine that makes me, well, be tied to the bathroom all night. Then at 4am is the worst part. I have to drink a whole bottle of magnesium citrate. Blech.

But about 25 hours from now it will all be behind me (pun intend me) and if all goes well, I'll be done for another 3 years!

code monkey wrote:

pumpkinpi wrote:Today is the day that comes around every 3 years that I dread the most. Some of y'all have felt my pain. (Though not many as much as I have, by my count I've had more than 10 of these.)

Tomorrow I have a colonoscopy. So for the past two days I've been on a restricted low fiber diet. It's hard to fill up on that. And today it's clear liquids only. I'm starving already. This afternoon I get to take some medicine that makes me, well, be tied to the bathroom all night. Then at 4am is the worst part. I have to drink a whole bottle of magnesium citrate. Blech.

But about 25 hours from now it will all be behind me (pun intend me) and if all goes well, I'll be done for another 3 years!

all the best to you. (and be sure to have some interesting things to read in the washroom - books, journals, magazines, newspapers etc.) as you say it'll all be over in a day and then you can pretend that nothing ever happened. btw, have you ever read dave barry's account of a colonoscopy?

Thumper wrote:Oooh, fun stuff.
What are you, like a Tour de France cyclist on the side? Resting heart rate of 28, sheesh!

SciFiFisher wrote:

Thumper wrote:Oooh, fun stuff.
What are you, like a Tour de France cyclist on the side? Resting heart rate of 28, sheesh!

Seriously, I am not a terribly athletic person. Even while in the army I wasn't even a gym rat. I either have a seriously efficient cardio-vascular system in spite of my benign neglect OR I have slow conduction issues that will someday end with me getting a pacemaker. Mind you, one theory does not preclude the other.

After my GI fun the army sent me for the One Million Dollar cardiology evaluation. The cardiologist said "Basically, as long as you are not showing symptoms such as chest pain, shortness of breath, or passing out there is no reason to put a pacemaker in. And if we put a pacemaker in now your military career is over". At the time I was hopeful that World War III would ensue and I would magically become a General and retire to a life of luxury and filthy lucre. So I told him to hold off on that pacemaker thing until I started to do all those wonderful things that would require me to get a pacemaker.

pumpkinpi wrote:The first few times I had the procedure I was totally knocked out. Eventually I learned it was "twilight sleep" where I actually was partially awake, but the sedation included drugs to make me forget. I thought that was pretty cool.
When I moved to Minnesota, the practice here used light sedation so that I was awake and aware of what was going on. That was not fun. Now they have moved on to propofol. I was completely out, thankfully. And apparently I woke up at one point and told the doctors I was having some pretty nice dreams!

Everything looks clear, no pictures to take home though!

pumpkinpi wrote:Today is the day that comes around every 3 years that I dread the most. Some of y'all have felt my pain. (Though not many as much as I have, by my count I've had more than 10 of these.)

Tomorrow I have a colonoscopy. So for the past two days I've been on a restricted low fiber diet. It's hard to fill up on that. And today it's clear liquids only. I'm starving already. This afternoon I get to take some medicine that makes me, well, be tied to the bathroom all night. Then at 4am is the worst part. I have to drink a whole bottle of magnesium citrate. Blech.

But about 25 hours from now it will all be behind me (pun intend me) and if all goes well, I'll be done for another 3 years!

pumpkinpi wrote:Everything looks clear, no pictures to take home though!

Then, in the evening, I took the MoviPrep. You mix two packets of powder together in a one-liter plastic jug, then you fill it with lukewarm water. (For those unfamiliar with the metric system, a liter is about 32 gallons.) Then you have to drink the whole jug. This takes about an hour, because MoviPrep tastes -- and here I am being kind -- like a mixture of goat spit and urinal cleanser, with just a hint of lemon.

pumpkinpi wrote:The first few times I had the procedure I was totally knocked out. Eventually I learned it was "twilight sleep" where I actually was partially awake, but the sedation included drugs to make me forget. I thought that was pretty cool.
When I moved to Minnesota, the practice here used light sedation so that I was awake and aware of what was going on. That was not fun. Now they have moved on to propofol. I was completely out, thankfully. And apparently I woke up at one point and told the doctors I was having some pretty nice dreams!

Everything looks clear, no pictures to take home though!

Swift wrote:Dave Barry and his colonoscopy

Then, in the evening, I took the MoviPrep. You mix two packets of powder together in a one-liter plastic jug, then you fill it with lukewarm water. (For those unfamiliar with the metric system, a liter is about 32 gallons.) Then you have to drink the whole jug. This takes about an hour, because MoviPrep tastes -- and here I am being kind -- like a mixture of goat spit and urinal cleanser, with just a hint of lemon.

code monkey wrote:

SciFiFisher wrote:

Thumper wrote:Oooh, fun stuff.
What are you, like a Tour de France cyclist on the side? Resting heart rate of 28, sheesh!

Seriously, I am not a terribly athletic person. Even while in the army I wasn't even a gym rat. I either have a seriously efficient cardio-vascular system in spite of my benign neglect OR I have slow conduction issues that will someday end with me getting a pacemaker. Mind you, one theory does not preclude the other.

After my GI fun the army sent me for the One Million Dollar cardiology evaluation. The cardiologist said "Basically, as long as you are not showing symptoms such as chest pain, shortness of breath, or passing out there is no reason to put a pacemaker in. And if we put a pacemaker in now your military career is over". At the time I was hopeful that World War III would ensue and I would magically become a General and retire to a life of luxury and filthy lucre. So I told him to hold off on that pacemaker thing until I started to do all those wonderful things that would require me to get a pacemaker.

boy, did you do a good job picking your genetic inheritance!

pumpkinpi wrote:

Swift wrote:Dave Barry and his colonoscopy

Then, in the evening, I took the MoviPrep. You mix two packets of powder together in a one-liter plastic jug, then you fill it with lukewarm water. (For those unfamiliar with the metric system, a liter is about 32 gallons.) Then you have to drink the whole jug. This takes about an hour, because MoviPrep tastes -- and here I am being kind -- like a mixture of goat spit and urinal cleanser, with just a hint of lemon.

I've never had MoviPrep. My prep involves drinking 64 oz of Gatorade mixed with a whole bottle of Miralax. 8 oz every 15 minutes until it's gone. My kids don't get why I gag when I give them their Gatorade for practices.
Then at 4am is the worst part, drinking 10oz of magnesium citrate. Syrupy salty lemony gross!