When I was younger, I would not eat a lot, anything I did eat I would throw up, so I had a to get a G-tube at a very young age. Fast Forward a couple years ago, I got diagnosed with EE (Eosinophilic Esophagitis) a allgary influntary disease. This disease required me to get a procedure done where doctors would a camera down my throat to test how my body required different food groups (I.E. Wheat, dairy, etc)
What life was on the day of the procedures
On a typical day of procedure, I would wake early to go from Naperville to Comers Hospital in Chicago because it's a long drive. After getting comers hospital we would usually park in the Valet parking a lot. After that, we would get to the elevators, and the cool thing about the elevator was it had a voice that would say “going up”. I know that is a weird thing to say but when I was in the elevator it was pretty cool and I wanted to share.
Anyway, after going to the elevator of the waiting room, I would make my way into the waiting room. Now this waiting room was not large, it was pretty small. The waiting room and a small hallway leading to it, a tv with some video game, that almost never worked and some seats. The first thing we would do is get checked in. After a few minutes I would make my way to a room where I would stay until I would go to the operating room. In this room they would ask me a lot of questions like what medicine I was on. I would reply by saying I was on a bunch of medicines like a growth hormone shot and medicines to keep me from throwing up.
After getting this out of the way, the anesthesiologists would come in. Now usually anesthesia is not the best smell in the world, so I would get the option to have flavor that I could smell! I would pick mint or something.
After a little more time I would head down to the operating theater where I would move from one bed to the operating bed. Then they would put stickers to track my vitals, and stuff. From there I would have the anesthesia mask on, and count from 1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9-10 and boom I would fall asleep.
After operating I would wake up and drink some Apple Juice. For some reason you need to get fluids in your body after an operation like that. After that I would get my stickers taken off and an IV patch that they would put in while I was sleeping off too. Then I would head home