Post by @MichaelTBacon@social.coop

2026-09-15 13:39 UTC

They tell you to eat broth. I'm going to tell you to eat broth. I thought, "ugh, that sounds like a pain and kinda gross, I'll just fast through it. . . " and didn't buy any in advance. But you're also on medication by that point to loosen you up so you're already feeling weird. I found some broth I'd saved from some pot roast two years ago deep in the freezer. Friends I have never been so glad to eat broth.

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@MichaelTBacon@social.coop 2026-09-15 13:42

Then we get to the part I'm in now. The details are a little more complicated, but basically the night before the procedure and the morning of, each time you have to drink a half gallon of gatorade with laxative dumped in it. I looked on the bottle of laxative they gave me. It's a "once daily" dosing. There's 14 doses in it. You dump the whole bottle in and drink the whole thing. Then you do it again with a second bottle in the morning. Before I go on, let me say right now that having gone through a night of it, the *actual drinking* of the stuff is absolutely the worst part of it. The after-effects, which I was very nervous about because I expected to feel like I had a gut virus, was a little gross but not that unpleasant overall. Drinking a half gallon of this stuff in an hour though is a CHORE.

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