Brandon Buttars, 1979 - ?

OK. I thought I would write a blog post for a change since I'm suppose to be so good at it, well at least I'm doing it for a living so you'd think I was good at it. My vital signs are good. Looks like I'll be alive for awhile longer. Not sure if that's a good thing or not. Hopefully I would have been missed.

So Branson and Peggy call me the "Drama Queen" so here's the low down on my drama.

Sunday I got to start taking the "colon cleansers". What a joy. I guess they're much better than they use to be. I first took 2 times release capsules then I mixed up the jug of joy. I had 4 great flavors to choose from. I chose Lemon Lime in case any of you wanted to know. Then I got to drink it every 15 minutes for about 2 hours or so until is was gone. Yeah I got sick of it but survived.

Monday morning at 10:45am I went to American Fork hospital for my colonoscopy and endoscopy or whatever the heck they call it. Basically I got the scope from both ends. :) If you're offended on the bluntness of that statement you must not know me. The doctors were great. They treated me well and even turned down the lights before giving me anesthesia. Guess it helps the mood.

When I came to, Peggy and the boys were right there and the doctor told me that I didn't have a hernia so it must be acid reflux and then he told me they found 2 polyps in my colon and they removed them. They said all polyps are precancerous so they were going to do a biopsy on them and let me know if I needed to be concerned about anything. They said I'll probably need a colonscopy now pretty regularly. Yeah. It actually wasn't too bad. I took the rest of the day off and relaxed.

Tuesday was the sucky day. Whenever they do anything like a colonoscopy they have to inflate your organs with air so they can see everything. Well my colon got inflated and that air escaped fairly easily. They also inflated my stomach. The whole reason all this medical stuff started happening was because of some chest pains I was having. Well the chest pains came back and were worse than they had ever been. All due to the air in my stomach. I think they may have over inflated me. :( It took awhile for all the air to come out and I'm still not sure if it is. I'm having very minor pains still, but it's way better than it was. We almost went back to the ER on Tuesday.

Wednesday I tried going back to work and worked half a day but was very nauseous and ended up coming home. I ended up with a fever and decided to take some Tylenol for that. I took a nap and woke up a bit better.

Thursday I still hurt but wasn't nauseous anymore so Thursday ended up being my first full day back at work. It went good. Of course I got the expected jokes but I'm cool with it. Wasn't as bad as I thought it would be. There were actually quite a few people that had colonoscopies before or had relatives that had.

Needless to say, my fear of the "silver stallion" as my Dad calls it is no longer there. I recommend anyone with digestive issues go get them checked out and don't worry about the colonoscopy. They put you under and it isn't bad at all. Now the inflated stomach, that sucked but that was the other procedure, not the colonoscopy.

If you need more details or would like to see the photos let me know. :)

Good News / Bad News

The Good News is...
The EKG Brandon had in the Emergency Room on Friday night suggests his heart is as healthy
as a horse.
Our health insurance kicked in just in time for Brandon to go to the ER (at least we are hopeful that it did, a lack of insurance cards makes us uneasy, however the lady at Brandon's work told him he was insured...but she also told him a few other things that weren't exactly true).
A missed episode of Friday Night Lights can be watched on NBC.com.
Also, we got a tax return this year, which is way better than owing taxes like we did last year.

The Bad News is...
Brandon probably has hiatal hernia and ulcers, he'll find out for sure when he sees the GI doctor he was referred to.
Brandon gets to experience a colonoscopy .... have fun with that Brandon!
Our tax return this year will probably all go to pay medical bills!!