{"id":216894025,"date":"2013-04-18T15:09:20","date_gmt":"2013-04-18T02:09:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/?p=216894025"},"modified":"2013-04-18T15:09:20","modified_gmt":"2013-04-18T02:09:20","slug":"pills-and-potion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bignoseduglyguy.com\/?p=216894025","title":{"rendered":"Pills and potion"},"content":{"rendered":"

One way or another, I have been sick for the last seven months. Various theories include post-infection problems after nursing our dying calf Willow last year<\/a>, some form of inflammatory bowel disease or, God forbid, something more serious.<\/p>\n

\"Pills\"<\/p>\n

Things have slowly worsened over the last six months, requiring me to adjust my diet, take all sorts of medications and, in recent weeks, take sick leave from work to try and get things under control.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Today sees me a third of the way through a 36 hour liquids-only fast and preparing, dear Lord, to drink 3 litres of\u00a0gastrointestinal tract flushing agent ahead of a colonoscopy tomorrow.<\/p>\n

\"Potion\"<\/p>\n

Strangely enough, I am keen to get this done, know what’s going on and find out what needs to be done going forward. \u00a0It will not surprise those who know me that my idea of how the procedure will go is something like the Billy Connolly’s ‘connoll-oscopy’ (not for the faint-hearted or easily-offended<\/em>).<\/p>\n