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This One Is Dedicated To Bev Potter And Her ‘Quite Long And Redundant Colon’

In which I have a test that sounds dirty but isn’t

Photo by Mathew Schwartz on Unsplash

Bev Potter recently wrote about her colonoscopy and the uh, aftermath. If you’ve had this particular procedure, you know what we mean. Go give her pieces a read.

You won’t regret it, although she could have given us a few more details about her “quite long and redundant colon.” We can only hope for Part 3.

Been there, done that.

I’m now onto other things. I dabbled in breast stuff for a while (mammograms, sonograms, MRI, biopsies, lumpectomy, all very fun) and then, since I’d maxed my out-of-pocket insurance costs for the year, decided this would be the year I’d get all the things done.

So I had a swallow test. The upshot was that while yes, I do have some narrowing of my esophagus, which I already suspected, it’s not bad enough to mess with. So that’s good to know.

Have you heard of swallow tests? My husband hadn’t.

He asked me to clarify what I was having done that morning.

“It’s a swallow test,” I told him. “Some guy on the internet said he’d come by and give me one. It…