- I ate maggot cheese, I can do this.
I should not have said maggot cheese.
I remember they were giving me the drugs
and I was like yay.
(Kim laughs)
Hey I'm Kim.
You wanna know what time it is?
It's colonoscopy time.
If you're new here and new to this journey, welcome.
I get colonoscopies every one to two years.
I have something called ulcerative colitis.
It's an auto immune disease.
And I have to tell you my 20's and 30's it was way worse.
I think I'm one of the rare people
that actually the hormones of childbirth,
it's the one thing in my body
that got better after having kids.
Everything else kinda. (Kim clicks tongue)
I get routine colonoscopies
because with ulcerative colitis
it puts me at a higher risk for colon cancer,
and colon cancer unfortunately runs in my family.
In previous colonoscopies
they've found polyps and other stuff.
So just gotta get the old (Kim clicks tongue) colon checked.
Funny story, as Penn and I started dating
he asked me out on a date.
It would've been our first date, and I said
"no I can't go on a date with you."
And he said, "why I thought we were heading that direction?"
And I said "no sir, I gotta get the old colon check."
So I didn't know how he would react
as a he was 29 at the time, but he was very funny.
He would call me and he's like
hey I'm watching this show on space travel
and they're talking about Uranus
so I was thinking of you.
(drum beat playing)
So sweet guy as it turns out.
It's 5:45 and it's time to start the process.
And if you don't know what I mean sorry about that,
but gotta start the process of cleaning out the system.
So this is the most disgusting thing you've ever tasted.
But if you are prepping for a colonoscopy now
you just gotta suck it up, it's gonna be fine.
I mix mine with Gatorade and I mix it to here.
Two or three days before the prep itself
I start eating kind of a lower fiber diet
I think they want.
I do a lot of smoothies,
I do like a banana peanut butter banana smoothie.
If I eat like normal,
and you can even have a small breakfast they say
the day you start your prep, it wrecks my stomach.
So I am starving right now, so I'm in a great mood.
My family is over me.
I gotta be honest,
I'm really trying to be rosy about this
because I want you guys to get your colonoscopies.
This procedure itself is just the biggest no big deal.
It's actually I look forward to it, it's an amazing nap.
The prep, I just gotta get over it, it's fine.
But you should do it, you should do it.
(Kim claps hands)
Woo!
(light music)
Cheers.
Get over it.
Ready.
It's fine, it's going great.
I ate maggot cheese, I ate maggot cheese, I can do this.
I should not have said maggot cheese.
I have to do this, I have to do this.
I have to do this, I have to do this test,
and if I don't get this test
and if I don't do a good job with this
then they potentially couldn't find something.
And if there's something growing in me
that doesn't need to be there
they need to be able to cut it out,
and they can't do it unless I do this.
The good news is in that
about half hour after I drink this
I'm gonna have explosive diarrhea.
That's the good news.
(Kim laughs)
Thank you for coming on this journey with me.
Okay.
Okay the first dose is done.
Over the next hour I need to drink about 32 ounces of water
to kinda get the system moving,
and to make sure you don't dehydrate.
While I wait for the action to start and drink my water
I'm gonna start binging "Bridgerton".
And that's like when else can I as a mother do this?
When can I say "no honey I can't leave.
"I can't go run a kid to basketball practice,
"I have to sit and watch 'Bridgerton'".
It's doctors orders!
This is why you should get a colonoscopy folks,
you get to binge watch TV and have explosive diarrhea.
This is day two.
Last night I got through two episodes of "Bridgerton"
and I'm in a terrible mood.
And here we go, I gotta do another one.
You wanna smell this?
(Penn groans)
I might vomit.
- Okay I'm here for you,
I've got there's a can right here so.
It's college.
Chug.
Chug yes.
There that's a good gulp,
you do five more of those big gulps and you're done.
Yes.
Oh my gosh you're so close.
- They have self driving cars
and we can spot
black holes and we can't make this taste better?
- I know.
- I'm sorry.
- I know.
Come on yes.
Yeah big chug, big chug, big chug, you got it,
you got it, you got it!
Yes!
We're done.
- Well in the next 15 to 20 minutes I'm gonna.
- Right we're gonna turn off the camera for that part.
- There's an evacuation.
Okay it's go time.
I have my chauffer.
He's been really patient with my really bad mood,
but I'm in a great mood now
because this is my favorite part.
You guys don't understand, it's the best nap ever,
you don't feel a thing,
and then you wake up and they're like oh you're healthy
and you don't have to do this again
for a nother year or two.
I look forward to this part.
- Quick update, I'm outside the doctors office
eating my lunch after I tried to bring it inside
and my wife tried to quote stab me for it.
So yeah probably shouldn't have brought my lunch in.
(machinery beeping)
It's good news from the doctor.
(people chattering indistinctly)
- For some reason
it felt like they were all in my living room.
My living room was really white and I woke up
and it was really white, I'm like are you in my home?
(Penn laughs) I was like are you in my living room?
- [Penn] Should've asked if you were in the house.
- And they were like absolutely not.
(Penn laughs)
But I was like.
I remember they were giving me the drugs
and I was like yay! (Kim laughs)
- Actually I think if you wake up
enough to go home then you can sleep for a long long time.
(people chattering indistinctly)
Isn't that good news?
No.
- Hey friends.
Wrapping up.
They were not in fact in my living room.
I woke up I was like are you in my house?
They were not in my house which was a shame
because now we have to drive home.
Three polyps, but because I did an amazing prep
because I win at prep they were able to see everything.
So that's why it's important that you prep well
'cause he could see all the flat stuff.
So I basically I think I won
if colonoscopies were a con-- - It's not a contest
but you did great.
Validation, you're really good
at cleaning out your colon so.
- And now I get to wait a couple years.
- Right they said maybe three years, so that's good.
So we're gonna get you home to sleep now.
- I'm so excited.
- Thank you for joining us on,
oh she's thank you for joining us on this journey.
She's going to sleep now.
- Night night.
Hey friends quick update.
It's been long enough since the colonoscopy
that I got a haircut, so it's been about a week.
I got a note from the nurse,
and I just wanted to read you something.
It says "one or more of the polyps removed
"was a sessile serrated adenoma."
So that means that it is not cancer right now
but that's the type of polyp
the flat polyp that can grow into cancer.
And that means that my first degree relatives,
meaning my kids, need to get a colonoscopy at age 40
or 10 years prior to when this was removed.
So they have to get their first colonoscopies at 36
because that is the scary kind of polyp that kinda grows.
And another reason to get your colonoscopies people
because that could be kinda scary.
But now it's easy peasy 'cause they took the whole thing out
so yay thank you for going on this journey.
Get your butts checked.
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