Today was my gastroscope and I’m happy to report it went well. I have a hiatus hernia – but it isn’t serious and the doc has given me a prescription to help heal me. Before I went to the hospital this morning I read someone else’s report on their experience. It was helpful, but as my experience was different I thought I might recount some of it to let you have a sense of what you might expect.
First let me say, that hospitals always seem cold to me. I now make it a habit to wear warm socks – it is about all that you get to wear other than the fashionable gown! I was in the day surgery unit – about 18 beds in a big room. Whenever I enter this room I envision a large orphanage with a host of kids propped up on their beds. The treatment room is next door – and of course after going through the usual “what are you allergic to?” questions and taking of my blood pressure and inserting the needle for an IV feed I was given one warning. “They are going to spray the back of your throat and it tastes disgusting. It is really bad.”
I am here to testify that it does – really bad! But the whole procedure – the camera down the throat part only takes about 5 minutes.
I remember nothing…after spraying my throat I received the antistitic and I was gone. I may remember something going down my throat but it is so faint of a memory I’m not really sure. The next thing I knew I was looking at the wall back in the orphanage. Nurse Tammy got me up – and I think I did quite well. Fortunately Wendy doesn’t blog here so she won’t be retelling the story.
What I can say is that I’m really looking forward to some solid food tomorrow!
If you having surgery – don’t forget the warm socks!