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Actually it's an urban myth that a colonoscopy is a bad experience. I've been through a few of them and each time it has been an absolute joy. They give you some kind of purgative stuff to drink the day before and you completely clean your insides out. Feels so good. You can almost feel how squeaky clean your intestines are. I imagine a tiny person inside sliding down them like a kid on the world's biggest and curviest water slide.

Then they put you under this "twilight" sedative the day of the procedure, you slip into these really weird dreams where you imagine yourself outside your body and nothing but good things are happening. Then afterwards, you are wheeled into recovery and your wife is there to drive you home as you come off the medication.

They tell you to take it easy with the eating afterwards but I don't pay any attention to that. We go to a steakhouse and I have the biggest steak on the menu with a couple sides of broccoli and about a gallon of beer. Everything feels so good going down into those squeaky clean intestines.

All in all, a very pleasurable experience.