Thursday, August 21, 2008

Dave Barry quote

 
Dave Barry wrote a column about his colonoscopy (http://www.miamiherald.com/548/story/427603.html), and I found this bit about preparing for it pretty funny:
 
"The instructions for MoviPrep, clearly written by somebody with a
great sense of humor, state that after you drink it, 'a loose watery
bowel movement may result.' This is kind of like saying that after you
jump off your roof, you may experience contact with the ground.

"MoviPrep is a nuclear laxative. I don't want to be too graphic, here,
but: Have you ever seen a space-shuttle launch? This is pretty much
the MoviPrep experience, with you as the shuttle. There are times when you wish the commode had a seat belt. You spend several hours pretty much confined to the bathroom, spurting violently. You eliminate everything. And
then, when you figure you must be totally empty, you have to drink
another liter of MoviPrep, at which point, as far as I can tell, your
bowels travel into the future and start eliminating food that you
have not even eaten yet."
 
And drinking it, in my opinion, is the worst part of it.


 

1 comment:

I'm eager to hear your thoughts!