Your First Colonoscopy. Bob Stromberg

Your First Colonoscopy is one you'll never forget, just ask Bob Stromberg.

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didn't older I'm getting no wedding and you are too by the way we're all getting older this but but your most of time you don't even know it you don't even you don't think about it it takes up one day you might go there's a little gray something light but normally you don't even think about it except those special times when you realize I'm getting older I've been through one of those I I have my 50 year checkup a couple months a few years actually it's been nearly two decades just how the batteries how many of you been through that 50 year checkup stuff for you the hilarity yourself anybody out there anybody yeah okay you know that that's the special one isn't it that's the one where the normally healthy person has their first exposure to the whole idea of the colonoscopy I could just break that word down for you briefly : that's the last five or six feet of the large intestine and us go pee us go pee Latin word medical term literally translated garden hose with camcorder my doctor is describing for me what I was going to be going through and I don't know how I got to be fifty years of age without knowing what that procedure I don't know how that gap got we've been very healthy in my family I guess I just didn't know what it was and so he's describing for me what I would be enduring and I should tell you that my doctor is actually my best one of my best friends since college so for 40 years we've been close friends has a wonderful sense of humor we've had a great relationship and and so as he was telling me what I'm going through because of our relationship I thought he was joking so my response was [Laughter] they are gonna put me out for this all right I don't know how I feel about buy a doctor's bedside manner he actually laughed in my face he said no no no Bob you can watch the whole thing if you want I said no I don't think I'm that flexible [Music] better make it worse I had to drink two big plastic bottles of this stuff meant to cleanse my digestive system and I don't know how you felt about that stuff ma'am but I found I found that stuff to be really effective 3:00 a.m. I'm in my favorite place my wife came and she said you you did dilute this stuff Enya I would explain it cleanse my digestive system every other system that I lost computer files at night the instruction sheet from the hospital said before you come for your 6:00 a.m. procedure be sure that you drink listen 3800 milliliters of water I'm from Minnesota not Manitoba I have no idea what what this me I didn't I never studied them the metric system not enough familiar with us German I've never sold drugs I did so 4:00 a.m. I'm in my kitchen with a bowl and a measuring cup in a ruler trying to figure out how many milliliters are in an inch don't work too hard on that the answer is none then I started thinking nil um no no I think that junior high coming back I think that means thousands so I backed the decimal point up three places to three point eight there they shout that out in Canada by the way 3.8 liters which is a gallon of water and I'm thinking is this is this possible could this be accurate I'm type I think it yeah I've never drank a gallon of water and one standing in my life but I did it and I got to the hospital only nurse said well mr. stark are you feeling I said well not great I just drank a gallon of water can you can you explain to me why well I wouldn't even think would be safe medically to do such a things and she said well you need you're gonna need to fill up that little play plastic cup the little cup from here I'm kind of hoping so cuz otherwise it won't even be a challenge [Music] hey do you know the Drybar comedy has their own app download it right now to watch my whole comedy special