Radioactive Eggs
I got all distracted telling you about the alternative medicine and nutrition thing and forgot to mention how I spent Monday afternoon. That’s when my stomach emptying test was scheduled.
So, I went to the Nuclear Medicine department at the hospital and they had me eat radioactive eggs. I’m not kidding here. I had to wear a bib and latex gloves so as not to get any on me, only in my mouth and the guy doing the test stood like 5 feet away from me while I was eating them. They were kind of flat scrambled eggs like they’d been made in a microwave and they definitely needed some sort of salt and pepper. They weren’t green, much to my disappointment. I also got to have a slice of regular toast and some Dasani water.
You do have to eat it all in 10 minutes so there is some pressure there and I’m kind of a slow eater. I didn’t eat all of the toast or drink all of the water.
Then you have to sit on this table with your legs wide open and hug this machine that takes an x-ray of your insides — concentrating on your stomach. Then they take on from your back. They did this again 50 minutes later, I think and then 20 minutes after that. Really I’m not sure on the timing. I do know that the way I had to sit messed up my leg muscles and I walked funny for 2 days and the radioactive eggs sat in my digestive system ruminating for 2 days. Talk about your toxins. Not particularly fun with all the news about the dead Russian spy who’s been poisoned by digesting radioactive something or other…
Anyway, I won’t know the results until next week or something. I’d have to check my calendar. The question isn’t how fast the eggs left my body but how fast they left my stomach.
tags: digestion, stomach emptying test, nuclear medicine, green eggs, wellness
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on November 30, 2006 at 9:43 pm
Rebekah said:
Happy Thursday!