Pre-Colonoscopy/Colonoscopy...and RADIATION

Thursday/Friday

Boo! I spend the whole prep day, with a fever not able to eat any solids AND I threw up the lemon magnesium nitrate or whatever it was called. YUCK! Horrible. Anyway once I started the drink it was so disgusting and it was lemon too! I finally choked it all down by 2AM. I mixed it with white grape juice(which I can never drink again!) Anyway I got about an hour of sleep, woke up went to colonoscopy at 6:45am, went good. I DO NOT have crohn's disease! They want me to meet back with my doctor about Breshets(sp?) I have not even googled that yet... I'll worry about that when it my appointment comes up.

After the colonoscopy I went to Radiation it was ok, it turns out I have the beginning of thrush, and my throat is pretty sore from radiation. My tongue feels coated and rough, there is little taste to things anymore, and I have a good saliva flow(thanks doc!) but my tongue feels dry. There are small sores all around my mouth now, mostly under my tongue, that make it difficult to move my tongue around too much. I am staying super hydrated, its hard to get hungry though. The on-call doctor at NWCC said the fever(101 degrees) is just bad luck, nothing to do with radiation. A virus in the mix of all the expected effects of what they are doing. Lucky. Well the prescribed something called "magic mouthwash" sounds delicious ;) I've got to wait till tuesday to get Rx filled, pharmacy needs to order ingredients. *sigh