Thursday. Valentines Day.
Wednesday 13 Feb. Soon to be Thursday Valentine’s Day.
Just had my first dose of Picolax for the day.8.30 am. Another one at 4 pm. Then nothing to eat until after the examination on Thursday Valentine’s Day at 3.30 pm. The 13th has nothing to do with it, it’s just how it worked out. I have the Colonoscopy on Thursday I am really looking forward to the next few hours on and off the bog. What joy.
This is not the first time I have had one of these sessions it’s about the 8th or 9th.
By the time the Picolax has worked your arse feels like it’s fire. Then just as it is calming down you have a camera poked up it. Oh, what joy, I don’t think. I have two orders to sort today but I daren’t leave the building because once this stuff starts to work it works.
The 14th of February arrives.
Well, I have had the experience now and all I can say is I am well impressed by the treatment I received. I was under a Doctor at Colchester Hospital whom I could not get on with plus it was a job to understand everything he said. He had no sense of humour. Apart from his own. ( Asperger’s ) If he had his way I would be wearing a Colostomy bag about 6/8 years ago.
This year 2018/19 I asked my Doctor if she could get me a second opinion. My Doctor got me an appointment at Ipswich Hospital with a consultant called Yin Miao. ( Now retired, unfortunately. )
Pronounced Yin Mew.
I can honestly say I have never been treated so well maybe because it was Thursday. Valentine’s Day by a professional medical person in all of my experiences at hospitals. She is brilliant. The staff in her department were brilliant. Colchester Hospital could learn a lot from her team.
I have had about 8 or 9 Colonoscopies in my 18/20 years of this complaint. ( Colitis ) Every time I have had one I lose blood for a few days after and sometimes a lot longer.
The Colonoscopy I had at Colchester was in September 2018 this is now February 2019 I have not stopped bleeding since. I have had countless numbers of Prednisolone starting at 40mg per day ever since the Colonoscopy at Colchester.
This lady ( Yin Miao ) did an operation to remove a Polyp and took Biopsies. It is suspected that the same Polyp was attacked at Colchester because it had the top missing!!!!! There were several various implements in my Rectum at the same time as well as the camera. I have not seen any sign of blood in the last few days!!!
Watching the screen
Watching the screen as she carried out the procedure on Valentine’s Day I did expect to see quite a lot given what I could see on the screen and the amount of blood in the pictures. I have not seen any. This tells me a lot. There are Surgeons and then there are Surgeons. Most of them seem to think they are little Gods in their own little Kingdom. Well, let me tell you all you are not.
This lady is a Queen amongst them all along with her team. She has a sense of fun/humour and is approachable, all in all, a very nice person.
Staff at Ipswich Hospital
Staff at Ipswich Hospital I have come into contact with up until now with one exception who took me into the clock-in room from the waiting room and asked a few questions to dot the I’s and cross the T’s as it were and fit the armband, I think it was the fact that she was so grumpy it was that keeping her going. If she had smiled it would have cracked her face and broken it.
Maybe I am being a bit harsh she may have had other things going on in her life. Don’t close the door it closes itself, put your things on that chair, sit here, go in there and get changed, etc. You couldn’t have any sort of conversation other than to answer questions. But then again she was not part of Yin’s team. Thankfully. There’s always one.
All the girls were friendly smiling and as helpful as you could wish for. That Thursday Valentine’s Day will be forever remembered. It is now 2020 and going strong.