Prep day, aka Cleanse day

Here is the accouterments that I'll be using for prepping for my surgical experience (that is the term they use in the handouts).

For five days before today, I was drinking three containers of Nestle's Impact Advanced Recovery nutrition drink.  I really don't like taking this stuff as it's a bunch of chemicals and calories. Each container contains 340 calories, times three that's almost an extra 1,000 calories a day! And  your supposed to ingest this along with your regular diet. Fattening me up for the kill? The cloying sweet taste of condensed milk and chocolate does not cover up the fish oil that has been added. I suppose this product would help if I only ate fast/processed food, drank soda all day, didn't exercise and smoked, but none of these apply to me.

Today will be a clear liquid only diet, just like in some of those fancy weight loss spas. Perhaps I'll even have time for an herbal facial in between trips to the necessary (as my mom calls it).

First thing, I mix pouch A and pouch B of MoviPrep (Who's the idiot in marketing that came up with that name? Further more, they have a link on their web site for a MoviMent. Really?) with a liter of water. Starting at 8AM I'm to drink 8oz of the solution every 15 minutes, consuming all of it within an hour. In less than an hour things begin to work, and I mean really work! Afterwards, I'm supposed to drink 16oz of one of the clear liquids of choice (no, not vodka). Then at 10AM I start the process all over again!

Then at 1PM, 3PM and 11PM I take 1 gram each of Neomycin and Metronidazole.

Then tonight, I get to shower with Dyna-Hex 4, and go to bed on clean sheets. Then tomorrow I shower with the Dyna-Hex 4 again and head to the hospital in clean clothes.

After more than two months of agonizing over my upcoming procedures, I have reached a point of resigned acceptance. Going forward, what I will be experiencing will be painful, frustrating, repulsive and undignified, but at least I won't have the constant anxiety I've been feeling. I have a job to get through things, one day at a time.

David, my husband, will be my guest blogger when I can't do it myself.

Thanks for reading!