First an explanation: What is colonoscopy?
Colonoscopy is a study of the entire colon by means of a colonoscope. The colonoscope is a flexible fiber optic tube that is inserted into the intestine. One can then inspect the inside of the intestine and transfer images from the body’s interior to a TV screen.
(…but I bet you have seen better programs! 😉
The start of my teenage years was filled with a number of surveys. None of these, which causes strange objects to be brought into the your anus, are particularly fun. If you have the opportunity to deny having a colonoscopy? Then do that! Say no!
But I realize that this was necessary examinations, to check what it was wrong with my intestines. But it was not fun. When the diagnoses was determined to be ulcerative colitis – chronic inflammation of colon- additional surveys were made to determine how far the disease had developed.
Most of these inspections into my “inner being” were performed at the hospital in Levanger. Standing on my knees with my ass up in the air, while somebody took a look “in there” is, at the very least, unpleasant. In most cases; it is plain painful!
To conduct a proper survey, I had been admitted to Rikshospitalet. That is the main hospital in Oslo, with the best doctors. There should be a colonoscopy. An examination at the very top of the colon. Then you get some anesthetic. But too little to experience it as a positive event in life. Then I’m on my knees, my back in the air. About 14 years old.
After a while, the doctor says, “Husby, there are some more people who would like to look at this.” And without waiting for any reaction from me, he take aside a veil, and there are 8-10 nursing students who also has direct access to a special view ….
This is probably not common practice today. But then it was quite common.
Then you can imagine how this felt for a fourteen year old boy.
After all these surveys, you pays extra attention to people when they greet you and ask:
“Where have I seen you before?”
My answer is always: “I hope it was in my face?”
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