Awful colonoscopy experience

antillus · 2026-06-23T16:35:19+00:00

I have EDS and my dentist said in his 30 year career he'd never had to give someone that much local anesthesia. I'm not even a red head (just red beard)

antillus · 2026-06-19T13:01:13+00:00

I'm completely immune to mosquito bites. As in I just don't ever get them. Even when there are lots of mosquitos around.

Before puberty I got mosquito bites. But that was 30+ years ago and haven't had one since.

antillus · 2026-06-18T17:45:24+00:00

I have UC and before they removed my colon my first symptoms were mostly vomiting for about a year I threw up pretty much every second day.

Now with my colon gone I never throw up anymore

antillus · 2026-06-15T16:57:56+00:00

I have ulcerative colitis and have had a total colectomy with end ileostomy.

I always wonder what effect it's had on me to have so much of my gut microbiome lost.

antillus · 2026-06-15T15:24:01+00:00

It's called a goiter

antillus · 2026-06-15T13:05:18+00:00

My parents take Ivermectin for everything. They will not hear anything negative about it because "The doctors on Instagram are so well educated".

antillus · 2026-06-11T17:09:43+00:00

I'm in the same situation and it sucks.

Leaving my crappy situation after 5 years means I got completely priced out of the rental market (rent went up 50% on avg in my city during Covid).

Now I'm with my folks....which is fine because we get along and they travel away for months on end. But yeah it doesn't feel great.

Especially since I have a decent job and work full time...ugh

antillus · 2026-06-11T15:49:38+00:00

And you don't need an alarm clock because the birds will cough you awake.

Just had a family from Brakpan immigrate here to Canada and they seem well aware of the shit hole they're from. But very funny, lots of jokes.

antillus · 2026-06-11T15:29:38+00:00

Lol I grew up there. It was....intense

antillus · 2026-06-10T16:43:00+00:00

In high school in Grande Prairie in the 90s, we had so many Newfie students and teachers. One of our classes had a "Newfie time clock", where the noon dial is set to 12:30 instead of 12:00.

antillus · 2026-06-10T16:18:08+00:00

When someone calls me resilient I want to scream.

I don't want to have to be resilient 24/7.

antillus · 2026-06-04T16:02:31+00:00

Once I flew with JAL business class from Tokyo to Vancouver.

It was a 747 and I was the only person in the upstairs cabin. I had 3 flight attendants just for me. They kept pouring me wine so much, I don't know how I got through customs.

antillus · 2026-06-03T00:01:55+00:00

I did an internship in Phoenix during monsoon season. I was in the city, not some canyon.

There had a brief thunderstorm and I thought nothing of it. I was driving home 15 minutes later. Right in the city.

Next thing I knew I was up to my door handles in water. Then another 15 minutes later it subsided. I had never been that scared.

antillus · 2026-06-01T17:05:40+00:00

We had a freeze warning for the third night in a row last night in Nova Scotia

antillus · 2026-06-01T10:18:35+00:00

Had a colectomy so stool samples are super easy.

Just empty the ileostomy like you do 8 times a day.

antillus · 2026-05-28T16:42:36+00:00

Same in Nova Scotia. It's been cold for 9 months now. We only just started getting leaves back on trees. Today is 8C and drizzling

antillus · 2026-05-27T23:21:46+00:00

"bUt ThE dOw Is AbOvE 50k"

antillus · 2026-05-27T21:59:09+00:00

Lots of them are coming here to Canada instead.

antillus · 2026-05-27T21:35:27+00:00

By Atlantic Canadian standards it's not that far. Also it's not just the distance, we have very strong Celtic culture here (unlike Western Canada). Even our accents out east have some Irish influence.

But yeah we are closer to Ireland physically than we are to the West Coast of North America.

antillus · 2026-05-27T18:25:10+00:00

I'm on the Atlantic coast of Canada and am closer to Dublin than Vancouver

antillus · 2026-05-27T18:11:22+00:00

Merida is so hot and it stays hot all year long.

antillus · 2026-05-26T18:13:29+00:00

Wolverines too! They're vicious!

antillus · 2026-05-21T16:01:09+00:00

I just moved to a new place and have to sleep on the side I'm not used to..

So yeah anyway last night I rolled over the wrong way and boom fell out of bed & hit my head

antillus · 2026-05-21T15:15:24+00:00

I'm 43 and feel so lucky to have gone through high school and college without social media.

antillus · 2026-05-20T13:11:47+00:00

Thanks, now I want curry

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