>> I was sick for 3 days afterwards. It was 10X worse than I expected. <<
I was rushed to the hospital in December of 2011 with a burst appendix. They did a lap-appendectomy.
I had to go back 1 day after release (on Christmas day) because everything backed up and I started vomitting uncontrollably.
I was fed only ice chips for 12 days (with an NG tube stuffed in me the whole time) while they were trying to find the blockage, in the mean time my pathology report game back from the appendicitis as being caused by a rare form of a cancerous tumor (adenocarcinoid)
They chopped out 1/3 of my colon and part of my small intestines.
I went through chemotherapy which almost killed me. (I’ll take surgery over chemo any day)
I had a colonoscopy which showed only 2 polyps, which they removed.
The cancer grew back.
Last November just before Thanksgiving they did Cytoreduction with HIPEC (cut out anything they could find, scraped my abdominal wall and then flushed me out with a heated chemotherapy slurry for 90 minutes).
I had many opportunities to share my Christian faith while I was in the hospitals. If my experience brings even one soul to God, it’s all worth it.
A colonoscopy is nothing to fear.
I would think hearing about your experience, as you described it, would make people grow more distant from God. It sure would put my faith on shaky ground for a while.