On Saturday, October 3, 2015 at 3:20:06 AM UTC-5, micky wrote:
In alt.home.repair, on Thu, 1 Oct 2015 23:19:16 -0700 (PDT), Uncle
Monster wrote:

On Thursday, October 1, 2015 at 11:54:07 AM UTC-5, Don Y wrote:
On 10/1/2015 5:20 AM, micky wrote:
In alt.home.repair, on Wed, 30 Sep 2015 12:29:14 -0700, Don Y
wrote:

In my "medical test" example, they were unprepared to perform the
test at *any* price! "Sorry, but we can't do that test, here..."

My laughing was about everytiing but that you went home with nothing.

If I had only "invested" a couple of phone calls and the time to
drive to the facility, it would have been "merely annoying". But,
given that I had already been inconvenienced by having to prepare
for the test I was nowhere near as "accommodating" of their
idiocy.

Yeah. I don't know what preparation you did but I once had to drink a
gallon - literally a gallon -- of something to flush out my insides. It
was one of the few times I missed having a wife, who I figured might
pour it down my throat. But left alone, I couldn't do it. I think I
drank between 2 and 3 quarts. The guy the next day didn't complain.

Colonoscopy usually requires that sort of prep -- make sure you're
squeaky clean inside! Drinking it isn't terrible -- it's the
*consequences* of drinking it that are... "unfortunate".

If the guy at the saw mill had said he couldnt' cut my poles, I would
have had to drive 30 minutes back to the store I bought them at and try
to get them to take them back. I guess they would have done it, but I
have an image of most of their customers knowing what they want, buying
what they need, and not bothering a farm store with annoying returns..

But actually the sawyer was very nice. I had a hundred, but I forgot
that I spent 130 at the computer store the previous day. I'd meant to
take a couple hundred in cash from my desk drawer, but forgot that too.
The farm store took charge carrds but the sawyer didn't. He said, Just
stop by and pay me later. I said, Can I mail you a check? He said,
Just stop by and pay me later. At first I thought he just didn't
want checks, but surely he gets paid by check very often. He must have
just been thinking I lived nearby and saying I didnt' have to rush to
pay him???

So I went to a cash machine and got money and paid him right away.


I've had a camera up my tailpipe twice in the past year. I drank a gallon of GoLYTELYŽ both times but the first time I required an extra power flush. I also had a camera snaked down my throat and I hope the camera was shoved down my throat first. o_O

I hear the throat is a lot worse than the rectum, which was nothing.

[8~{} Uncle Camera Monster

As to fasting, I have no trouble. On a couple occasions I've gone 18 or
20 hours without eating or drinking even when there was no reason to do
so. I was at home and just didn't want anthing.

I have to take a pill once a week now, to help replace bone calcium I
lost in the preceding few years, with a full glass of water, after not
eating for a while (all night?) and 30 minutes before eating, or
drinking anything other than water, or lying down. Lying down would let
the stuff come back up and damage my throat.

The first few weeks it was okay, but starting in July, I was back to
normal and I can barely manage to drink anything first thing in the
morning. Even after urinating. Sometimes I pour water in my mouth and
it spills out. But when not thirsty, it is easier to drink from a
bottle than a water fountain.

I only have 3 more months to go maybe, and I can stop taking this pill.

I hope you don't you don't mean that you have three months to live. o_O

I had cameras stuck in both ends because I was anemic and had a low red blood cell count. Doctors were trying to figure out where the blood was going since I'm too old to have a period. It turns out that I had a bleeding ulcer in my stomach which was caused by excessive NSAID use. The NSAIDs were the only thing that helped fight the swelling in my joints and allowed me to move around. I'm down to two naproxen sodium tablets a day so my hands don't stick closed and I can bend my other joints. o_O

I got you beat on fasting. I went two weeks without eating back in the early 1980's consuming only sports drinks, vitamins and protein tablets. When I finally broke my fast I ate at a breakfast bar and the food was heavenly. ^_^

[8~{} Uncle Hungry Monster