And in more No really, you're doing the right thing anvils: I'm currently on a BoltBus down to PDX, because tonight is the cast & crew screening of the indie movie I've been a consultant for. I'm introducing it and the director, and moderating the Q&A after the movie.

Projects I've been a part of, coming to fruition. Anvils. Pink, sparkly anvils, accompanied by bats.

Woot! Congrats!

The movie was utterly charming. The teen goths! Including a bubbly young lady dressed in pink and black, gosh, I wonder who she was modeled after? :)

I liked my cameo, but the Brain Raccoons are whispering about how I looked on screen. I am doing my best to ignore them.

How fun, Atropa! I expect that all brains not yours thought you looked enchanting on the big screen.

Yay, Atropa! And I'm confident that you looked amazing on screen because I've never seen you look any other way.

Today is my first full day alone with ltc since my surgery. I'm still exhausted and anxious. Any get through the day ~ma lying around would be great.

~ma headed your way, sj. Toddlers are exhausting on the best of days!

Feel free to skip medical complaining ahead.

I am gearing up for my battle with my PCP. I would say annual battle, but it has been 2 years since I saw him last, as a patient. The last time I was doing work in his office he scowled at me and told his MA to make me an appointment.

He will have a huge list of tests he wants me to take. And I won't do it. I will give him all my blood and in the unlikely event that there are any flags there I will consider other tests. He will want me to have a mammo, which I will do because not a big deal, although it was fine the ones I had at 50 and 60 so I would be better with waiting until next year at 65. Every 5 years when you have no issues seem sufficient.

Then there is the colonoscopy issue. I've never had one. I have ZERO problems there. Regular as clockwork, no indigestion or pain or any flags. I have an awesome healthy diet. This year I am going to tell him if he writes a letter of medical necessity for the pill camera variety and it is approved I will do it. My issue isn't the colonoscopy itself, it is sedation. I do not play well with medications. It took 5 tries to get a pain killer I could tolerate after surgery. I don't want to take sedation meds for a procedure I don't want anyway. Take a pill cam, sure! I'd even check out the pictures. I checked with my insurance and they said with medical necessity it would be covered.

I'm sure he will do an EKG and echo, which are non-invasive, but again, no real issues! Bone density will show I am 64 and don't have the bones of a 20 year old, but I already take the vitamins and work out at least 5 days a week.

It is ridiculous for me to be so whiny about going to the doctor when I should just be grateful for being as healthy as I am, but I hate it all the same. Wah, biggest baby ever here. Don't wanna.

Laura, Hubs has had several colonoscopies over the past 15 or so years. Every time, they've found polyps. Although, to be fair, he has a family history of cancer -- both parents died of it. (I had mine 4-5 years ago, and they found nothing to be concerned about -- no family history of cancer.)

In other words -- I don't have anything helpful.

I totally get why they need to do it. It is just my history with medications that concerns me. The pill camera doesn't require sedation.

My doc is pushing a colonoscopy, and I'm putting it off because I don't want to have to find someone to take me home and nursemaid me.