I was thinking about my past plethora of appointments during the summer, and I’m trying to p together why I did that?! But it had to be done because my disease is progressing. This disease progression is too much for me! But it’s happening regardless of how I feel about it.
I was thinking about it because for my second attempt in my colonoscopy, I had to stop my supplements on June 18 for my endoscopy and colonoscopy. That ended up failing, but I had to stop my supplements again for my cystoscopy so I was basically without supplements from June 18 until July 16. It was difficult, but I did it!
With this new colonoscopy that was scheduled for October 7, I stopped taking my supplements on September 28 because that was the beginning of a new week for my pillbox. I take a bunch of settlements, but I thought just being without it for eight days, it would be okay.
Well, it WASN’T!!! On Monday morning, when I was supposed to take my morning supplements. I looked at my Mom and told her that I felt so weird! I had to start a liquid diet four days before my procedure and the final two days, I only had chicken broth and green Jell-O.
I mentioned to my Mom that I’m a little nervous about that and she just said, “Green heals.” That made me laugh so much! In my family, my oldest brother Ray, used to ALWAYS tell my Mom to get green Kool-Aid when she went grocery shopping. He would only drink a green Kool-Aid or eat green Jell-O when he was sick because he said that it heals.
I don’t know that it does, but I did it, and I thought of him each time I ate that green Jell-O for my sustenance for the day. It ended up being successful and actually showing that I had polyp that they removed. I’m still not okay with that fact and I’ll talk about that in a bit I think but I enjoyed the memory of my brother being sick and eating green Jell-O because “Green heals”