Bush to Be Sedated for Colonoscopy (IS THIS REALLY A NEWSSTORY-AP has a slow newsday???)

Associated Press ^ | Fri Jun 28, 7:31 PM ET | RON FOURNIER

[leprechaun9]

I was wondering this morning if ABC, NBC, CBS, MSNBC, CNN, NPR,or the other members of their ilk would bid to get any polyp that is removed from the President and then have a panel discussion on the short and long term implications of the removal!

[Paulus Invictus]

This was not as bad as Johnson's TV appearance after his operation and lifting his shirt and showing off his big scar. Anyway, this is a news story, given the number of men with colon cancer these days. If there's a chance he might have cancer, should we not know about the exam?

[VOA]

This was not as bad as Johnson's TV appearance after his operation and lifting his shirt and showing off his big scar.

That was a beaut, wasn't it!? LBJ did "let it all hang out"!

Anyway, this is a news story, given the number of men with colon cancer these days.

I really wasn't knocking the reporting of Dubya's exam...just commenting on how
Presidential body parts are coming in for more public exposure over the last couple of decades.

Hopefully the news story will wake up some of us cantankerous males and get us
into the clinic to get the old most important tube in our lives checked out.

And now we can tell the doc "Whatever sedative they gave to Dubya, give me a double!"
If there was some truly enterprising M.D. out there, they'd be advertising "The Presidential
Treatment" to get the average Joe into their clinics.

(I guess the sedative might be Midazolam (Versed), as mentioned in post #34.)

The real upside to all this (besides ensuring Dubya's health)?
Dick Cheney will effectively be President (for a while) and the country will still be in good hands,
despite all the hand-wringing of the lefties/libs.

[boris]

I am having a colonoscopy on July 12.

Somehow I doubt I'll be getting the "Presidential" treatment...

The best part of it is the "sedation"...I love Versed.

Gimme that stuff, doc, and you can shove your TV camera anywhere you like...

--Boris

[boris]

"The way it's done here (U. of Chicago hospitals): no solid foods 24 in advance. Nothing after midnight. The night before, a laxative is followed by drinking about 6 quarts of a high-salt solution to clean everything out. They try to make it palatable by flavoring it. I will always hate pineapple. That cold, heavy metallic flavor covered with the merest gauze of pineapple was the worst part of the experience. I'd rather have the actual invasive procedure any time than to have to drink that stuff again."

They asked me what flavor I wanted. "None." I said.

"Why none?"

"Well, if it's pineapple, I can't bear to even look at a pineapple for a year. If it's cherry, I can't even stand a cherry tree. Better gimme the gag juice straight. I'm a grown up; I'll choke it down somehow."

--Boris