It’s called a Sig Flex which is basically half a colonoscopy. I had chosen no anesthesia or sedative as my mind goes to places it shouldn’t when I’m under. The cure being worse than the ill sort of thing.
So I get into my garb and I’m wheeled into the room. Everyone, especially Lina in pre-op was beyond awesome. Once in the room the Doc asks me if I understood what was about to be done. I answered yes. I was going to have many issues up there cauterized and get a few others banded. Before I could get that out of my mouth he says with a raised voice NO, that’s not at all what he’s about to do and asks me where I heard that from. I replied I had spoken to his office a week prior. Then he asked who I had spoken to and I said I have no idea. So I figured that was the end of that. Then he asked why did you think the cauterization wasn’t going to be done to which my reply was that the device used would interfere with my pacemaker. Then he asked about the banding and I said I was told it was the safest method to which he relied do you realize how much worse that would make things? I replied I was only repeating what I had been told prior.
So they get things ready and check my o2, it’s 99% percent but I’ll be getting 2% o2 via nose tubes anyway. I didn’t care. Well about 20 minutes into him doing what he did I started to cough. Mild coughs but I admit, where he was and doing what he was it was making things difficult. He tells me that I should know every time I cough it pushes his welding probe out of my arse. I agreed that was occurring since it was my backside feeling it get spit out and then re-inserted but that the coughing was behind my control. It was then my head nurse said that the o2 was drying my throat out and to remove it. He did and low and behold my coughing stopped almost immediately and never reoccurred.. will finish later.