Yesterday was Picolax day and bland restrictive diet too. According to the instructions, I was to stop eating solids by 1.30pm, but I was a little late and stopped instead at 3.30pm. Took 2nd sachet at 6 and was getting worried cos it was having no effect on me until 10pm. By 11, I was in bed and felt awful, all shaky and weak, one of my hands went numb, also really really drowsy.
Today was filled with all kinds of crap too!
I am terrible in mornings, and if I can, always try to grab an afternoon appt when I'm going somewhere. This wasn't possible in this case as they were squeezing me in last minute before I head to Brussels.
So 5.30am alarm starts are always bad, this was particularly so... I looked like I was dying (funny as consultant said when he meet me the other week, I look too healthy to be coming to him). Well, nobody thought that today. I couldn't keep warm, and my usual gasping thirst I always have was at a whole new level of thirsty. And I was starving! It felt weird, I didn't know what it was at first, as for a year or more now I have completely lost appetite, never hungry (always feel full hours after eating very little). Today, I had hunger to make up a year of no hunger. I didn't mind at that point, all these feeling crappy bits,as I thought it would over soon. Be home by lunch time, rest up for rest of day etc.
I thought my appointment was for 7.30am this morning, but when I arrived there, It was just to check in to day care along with many many others. It was an hour before the secretary called me, then when I paid I had to wait in another waiting area for another half hour, then taken to a bay room to change to p.j's and they'd be along for me shortly they said.
Well, it was actually 11.00 before I was wheeled off and 11.30 before doctor came in to do the 2 procedures (gastroscopy and colonoscopy).
As I was expecting to be in by 8, my mum planned to come back for 10.30 for me, she was late coming back but even still she was waiting in bay before I was brought back out. I then had to wait for an hour or two for obs, and til sedation wore off properly. Finally got feed some tea and toast by 2pm.
I didn't mind waiting a bit, I was so tired and crappy didn't really care, but by 10am I was getting a bit peed off, seeing everyone else wheeled off and back , and then someone else. I think I was last one to be called. I got a bad headache by 9.30ish, was so hungry and thirsty, and tired. If I had known it would be such a long wait, I would have pushed back the dinner/final solids til later in previous evening. And also would have had more water too, that I had to stop 2 hours prior so stopped it at 5.30/6am.
I must have looked awful, cos nurses kept stopping to ask if I was ok, and one even asked if I had taken sleeping meds, I was so drowsy and sleepy. Like I said mornings are always bad, but then no food/water, not much sleep and picolax drained me of any energy I could have had. My energy levels in last month and half have been much improved, great even, so I am fearing now that picolax strain on my body etc will ruin that. I still feel awful now, had terrible cramps in tummy after dinner, kinda gone now though and still feel v sleepy and almost sedated. Hopefully after a good nights sleep, I'll be ok tomorrow and recover properly.
Because of the delays and my mum being too early, the carpark bill was was 15Euros. I had told her to go drive it out and back in again, but she wanted to there for doctors rounds at the end, in case I didn't hear it all and I still drowsy and groggy. But we were worried about car park but no way expected it to be that much.
