Seven years ago I had a colonoscopy. I had to eat a special “diet” for five days prior. All white foods. No fruits or veggies or fiber or anything healthy. No bueno.
But the hardest part of the process was that the day of the procedure I couldn’t any drink water. No bueno.
The procedure was a breeze. I loved it. I apparently talked all the way through it (asking questions) and at the end when awake said, “I feel so good! Can I do this again in a year?”
Well it’s been 7 years (5 plus COVID) and this morning on my yoga mat as I contemplated drinking only chicken broth and gatorade and eating yellow jello manana, the day before the procedure, it came to me: Everything keeps getting better - even my colonoscopies.
Last time I had to eat an all white food/no fiber diet for five days. This time I don’t. It’s just the day before that I need to alter what I normally eat. That’s a lot better!
Also, once upon a time, I elected to drink only liquid green juice (“Taylor’s Green Lemonade” from our restaurant called “Prana”) for days. Once for 13 (!!) days, when I was creating “The Prana Cleanse.”
Now the thought of even one day on only green juice is, um, not appealing.
Not that there’s anything wrong with it (juice fasts) - or anything. It’s so awesome that we all get to want what we want and do what we want and choose what we want and it’s all good. We get to focus and think and feel and choose and live and learn and experience contrast and … do it again, but this time even better. Because it all just keeps getting better.
Even our colonoscopies.