Thanks, Lexie,
I just think that there is no need for a colonoscopy, and that right now one is dangerous. Since I can't tolerate IV's it is going to hurt like the devil, too, but if it did anything it would be worth it.

I am having additional pain in a new place (same side) and added sx. I just want this to go away. By the time I wait for the test and the results, and the scheduling for surgery we're talking at least a month. I don't think I have that long - or even close.

k

try to get a script for Emla cream. It's a topical numbing agent you use over the area they are going to start the IV in. We use it all the time with my kids, and I have too...it really does work, mamma. You wont feel the stick.

Thanks Alicia, but it's not the stick, but the being hooked up and having poison put in (I think of anything that comes in by shot or iv as poison).

mama

Everything has changed
 

I have an appointment on Halloween with a surgeon in a neighboring city, set up by my gp. She, supposedly will do both the colonoscopy and the exploratory at the same time.
mama

Best Wishes tommorow, Mamma at your appointment. Please know I'll be thinking about you and praying for strength and wisdom to make the right decisions.

Alicia,
Thanks. I will let you know how it goes. I feel really lucky to have folks like you interested in me.
mama

you've always been there for others, now let us return the favor, mamma~!
thinking about you, and there in spirit for ya~! Will check back tommorow after a nights worth of sleep.