Things do change purple, and I bet the swallow has too.  Try not to jump fences before you get to them even tho it's hard not to. One of the things I have learned is that, no matter how much we dread things when we are not in front of them, it is much easier when we have arrived at the place and have gone into the right gear to cope. We get into the atmosphere of it all and can get on with it. It's much harder when we are at home dreading it 😞 Once this is over and you know what is going on you will feel much better about it all and, hopefully, they find nothing for you to worry about 🙂

Thankyou Darki, I know you are right.......

I will have the blood tests this morning, then then take paperwork for the barium to xray, then forms for day surgery to admissions.

The only thing I dread is the barium swallow, but like you said surely it has improved by now.

no...think it's more like a down the throat o freshy:^O

I had quite a few barium meal swallows as well as innuendos in my time....disgusting tasting milkshake...do hope they've improved it over the years.

I just remembered something....a nurse once told me the trick to swallowing stuff like barium meal and that stuff befpre  an innuendo is to suck on an ice cube until your tongue is numb and right away swallow 'the stuff'.

Hasving the barium swallow at 9.30am tomorrow and for those wanting to know, I asked had the taste changed over the yrs, and she said no:_|

I have to fast from midnight, and procedure takes 30mins.

I wonder what tastes worse, the barium stuff or the drink you have for a colonoscopy.

I just remembered something....a nurse once told me the trick to swallowing stuff like barium meal and that stuff befpre  an innuendo is to suck on an ice cube until your tongue is numb and right away swallow 'the stuff'.

How can you suck on an iceblock when you are in the hospital having this procedure?

Easy purple, ask one of the attending nurses to get you a cup of ice.  There is usually some in the staff fridge or the kitchens and there isn't any reason why she can't get you some. 🙂

Thankyou Darki & freshwater........would never have thought of ice, but I will certainly be asking for some:-D

Good morning gerries 🙂

Thinking of you this morning purple and hoping the procedure goes like clock work and you are home before your feet have touched the ground :-x

Well another day another dollar (for some ;-))  I am going out to lunch today with a friend today to a lovely hotel that overlooking the Derwent River and Kingston.

Hope you all have a good day too.

morning all

num darki.....have some seafood for me please