Happy Halloween 2010!

I'm scared. Who wouldn't be right? This upcoming week on October 14th I am having my first colonoscopy. Why am I so lucky to have one at age 40 instead of 50 you ask? Well... because I'm having some pain and discomfort and because my mother had Crohn's Disease and my father recently had pre-cancerous polyps removed. So I've got to go through the lovely prep the day before when I starve myself on a liquid diet while cleaning myself out with three different OTC laxatives. Oh joy! Then I read horror stories about people who feel the exam while it's going on or wake up in the middle of the procedure. Or the doctor makes a mistake and they end up with a perforated colon and are rushed into emergency surgery. I can only hope and pray for the best and that this won't happen to me.