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So far, I have learned:

Magnesium Citrate is absolutely horrid to drink but if one must, the lemon flavor can be choked down fairly easily if one has a bottle/glass of one's favorite drink in the other hand. (I had Diet Pepsi. The carbonation helped clear the flavor from my mouth.)

The effects of 10 oz of MC and 4oz of whatever that other stuff is has been not as bad as I expected. And that other stuff (dry measured and added to 32 oz of fruit juice) is tasteless. Thank you, God.

"College Inn" brand chicken broth (in a can) is downright yummy. Like, "I would fix myself a cuppa even when I'm not fasting" yummy. Progresso's beef broth - not so much. I wish I'd purchased more than one can of the chicken stuff.

One can avoid getting crabby, grumpy, shakey and cry-ee by drinking a hot cup of broth. I wish I'd done that before I read LJ ealier today.

I'm tired. I need to pack and I need to work on a scroll, and I want to sleep. I have to be at the hospital by 6:30 in the morning.

That went well

When they said, "Twilight sleep", what they really meant was, "you're gonna be out cold". I remember being asked to lay on my left side and put some thingy in my mouth - and then I was being wheeled back to the recovery area. Really, the absolutely worst part of this whole thing was drinking that nasty 'first dose' stuff yesterday. Yeah, my throat is sore a bit, but other than that, it was fine. And thanks to Susie, I'd planned for the sore throat and have (yum) orange creamsicle sherbert/ice cream waiting for me in the freezer. Any excuse for that indulgence!

Which is good because I have to go in for an 'endoscopy ultrasound' some time soon. Don't know when yet, but there ya go. I asked why they were going to bother to do that since it was already obvious that they're going to remove the odd thing in my tummy when they take the gallbladder, but the doc just smiled and said that they'd really like to get a good look at it before they do the surgery. So there will be some interior pruning in my future. Hey, maybe I'll lose a little weight the easy way, yeah?

I'm going to sleep now. :)


[Additionally, I need to remember that after I've come home and slept, I WILL wake up feeling as if someone had been trying to shove a fence post down my throat. Next time, I ask about how to treat the terribly (now) swollen and uncomfortable throat. And I may have to hand off heralding this weekend. I am only croaking right now, not speaking. I'm glad I stocked the sherbert.:) ]