Thursday and Two Recs

[nightdog_barks]

Tired due to some Real Life stuff yesterday, which was getting one of those medical procedures you're supposed to have done when you reach a certain age. Readers who are of a certain age will recognize this procedure immediately when I say that it involved drinking a horrifically vile liquid (TWICE) and becoming more closely acquainted than you ever wanted to be with your bathroom. And then they stick a tube the approximate size of a USB cable up your butt. With a camera on it. So that was a shitload lot of fun. HA HA. SEE WHAT I DID THERE? I SLAY ME SOMETIMES. Sigh.

Started reading Robert Caro's Passage to Power, his latest volume in the LBJ saga.

Belated fic rec for menolly_au's Have a Heart, which is all kinds of creepy and deeply unsettling. AND ALSO a rec for armchair_elvis' Elementary fic, the city sunset over me (this mess we're in).* Gorgeous and gritty, atmospheric and detailed and eerily real, this is Sherlock exchanging London for New York and learning how to live all over again. A sample line: He wants to tell her that London is a map, that it’s engraved on his bones, but he doesn’t. He’s not sure she’d understand. Read these fics. They are awesome. :D

*Full disclosure that I was one of the betas for this fic.

Comments

[blackmare]

You've seen this, of course, but for the benefit of any readers who haven't: Dave Barry has THAT MEDICAL EXPERIENCE.

[nightdog_barks]

Heh, I HAVE seen that, but not in a while. IT IS ALL TRUE. :D

[pwcorgigirl]

Dave says the colon runs through Minneapolis, so I immediately wondered if you'd seen it. :-D

The local hospital back home sponsored that traveling Giant Colon once. I was SO glad to no longer be working for the newspaper when it came to town.

[silverjackal]

Well at least the procedure's over now, yes? ;D My boss has had multiple colonoscopies, starting from the age of 30, because his father was diagnosed with colon cancer (early, thankfully, and successfully treated). Consequently I am somewhat acquainted with what is involved. He tends to be sore for a couple of days after, too, so it's a bloody uncomfortable business all around. But! Nothing to worry about in regards to his health -- hopefully never.

[nightdog_barks]

Yes. *g* I am glad I did it, but even more glad that I'm done with it, hopefully for a LONG TIME. :D

[fierynotes]

When my dad had that procedure done, he joked about hiding a small flashlight in his mouth, turning it on after it started, and then screaming "you've gone in too far!"

One day I'll have to have that done myself. I'm not sure I'm quite bold enough to do that prank myself, though.

He mentioned having to drink magnesium citrate before the procedure. You remember those ads for milk of magnesia that described it as M.O.M.? Well, from what I heard, if magnesium sulfate is mom, then magnesium citrate is Mommy Dearest.

My condolences on going through all that. All's well, though?

[nightdog_barks]

LOL at your dad! And yes, everything is well. ♥ ♥ ♥

[taiga13]

Yikes! I'm not looking forward to that. When I think of it I remember the King of the Hill episode where Hank is having it, his wife is beside him and son Bobby joins them because the doctor says it should be a family experience, and Hank yells "Please just kill me!" in his Texan accent.

[nightdog_barks]

Ha, I wouldn't have wanted ANY member of my family in there. *g* Mister Nightdog stayed in my waiting room the whole time. (You have to have someone available to drive you home because the anesthetic makes you slow and fuddled.)