Colonoscopy

 Well, after doing so well with my running in April, I have cut way back in May.  I cut back because I've been having some back pain, and I didn't want it to get worse.  Lucky me, it's gotten worse anyway.  My sister has been bugging me to go back to the dr and ask for an MRI, so I messaged them, and my provider is ordering a x-ray and physical therapy.  I'm not super happy with that.  I really don't want to do physical therapy, maybe it will help, but I am an active person, so I don't think that's the cause of it.  

I know in my last post I said that I had increased a bunch of things, but even after decreasing weights, not running on hills and stretching, it's not helping at all, so how can it be because I got more active.  I don't know.

I am getting a colonoscopy tomorrow, I've put it off for 3 years, but I finally decided to just do it.  I can't be getting mad at Chris for not doing medical things, when I am avoiding a colonoscopy.  You have to actually prep before a colonoscopy, which if I knew about that, I would have probably continued to put it off.  Basically the 3 days before you aren't allowed to have fiber.  It's supposed to be a protein heavy diet and then on the day before, clear liquids only, like broth.  I can have jello and popsicles, but nothing with red, purple or blue dye in it.  And then that evening you have to clear out your bowels by taking a supplement of some sort.  They have a pill form and a liquid form, the liquid sounded nasty (and you have to drink a gallon of it in a short amount of time) so I got the pill form, and then you sit on the toilet.  THEN at least 5 hours before the procedure you take the supplement again. 

My procedure is at 8:30am, and when I complained that meant I'd have to be up at 3:30 just to take the pills, she said I can start the pills earlier the next day because my procedure is so early, and then I have to wait 6 hours and can take the second dose.  I'm a little worried about not getting any sleep tonight, but I have a friend who did it and she said the second dose isn't too bad. Sitting on the toilet isn't as bad because you've already cleared your system out. I really, really hope she's right. 

Anyway, this high protein diet I've been doing helped me to lose 4lbs.  I assume the events of today will cause me to lose more, but I refuse to stick with today's diet (all liquid, and "poop pills").  I'm thinking I may work on keeping closer to a strict protein diet.  I also have not been drinking alcohol, so that may also play a factor in the weight.  I plan to continue that as well.  I'm going to weigh myself tomorrow after everything is out of my body and see how much shit I actually carry around.  😂

I ran this last weekend, on Sunday, but I haven't run since.  I was going to run today, but I don't think I'll be able to.  Once I'm done with the colonoscopy, I'm told that I'll go "back to normal" and be fine (I can eat and drink whatever I want), so maybe I'll go run tomorrow, although there is sedation that happens, so I may be sleeping.

We did go to e. WA last weekend, which I forgot about.  But here's a picture of the sunset Saturday night after it rained a ton.