This morning has started with nice sunny spells, and they will help to take the chill off this morning - it is only 12° C as I write this. By midday it will cloud over and most of the day will be dull, but it should stay dry today. This afternoon may reach 18° C, or just warm enough to leave off a coat provided I keep moving. The last couple of hours of daylight may feature sunny spells. Once again it looks like it is going to be a cold night. Tomorrow morning may feature sunny spells, but from midday it could get very dull. The afternoon may see 20° C, and from 10pm there may be rain.

  Yesterday was all about preparing for today. The main points were a slightly heavier lunch than in the last few days, and at 7pm taking my first dose of Plenvu - which is a bit like taking dynamite !

  I had wanted to go out for a walk yesterday with either the pharmacy or Tesco as possible destinations, or maybe walk even more than to those two places, but with it pouring with rain I decided staying in the dry would be the better choice.
  This was the view from my garden camera at 12:20pm. It is a still from video where you can see the rain falling, but only because it is moving. The rain drops on the camera lens are the best indicator that it was pouring down.

  With no walk I was unable to test "Simply Walking", the app that tracks my walks, and which is now on my new phone via a dubious internet download. It also meant I couldn't accelerate my weight loss as a result of the special low fibre diet I was following as part of the preparation for my Colonoscopy and Gastroscopy.

  I ended up having quite a lazy day, but there were two notable things among the reading and snoozing (although I don't seem to remember much snoozing, and definitely not in the early evening for reasons I shall come to soon. One notable thing was lunch. I was not allowed to eat anything from 1pm yesterday until after my endoscopic probings today. It meant about 27 hours of fasting, and so I wanted a big lunch than recently. I had two cheese rolls and plain vanilla ice cream - rather more ice cream than usual - I ended up eating about half a litre of ice cream. I didn't stop until the tub was empty.

  I just remembered there was one other important, and thus notable thing yesterday afternoon. I contacted Jo to confirm she was still OK to act as my fast getaway driver after my hospital appointment. I told her that no matter what the hospital might tell her, she did not have to stay with me to look after me until the next morning, but that she was welcome to pop in for a coffee, or her usual at gigs, some chilled water. I also said that if he were around, she could meet Cous Cous. That may have been the lure, and she said she would be delighted to pop in once she had driven me home for a glass of chilled water.

  The major event yesterday was when I took my first dose of PlenVu. It was at 7pm, and it started reacting in little more than an hour. I had to dash to the toilet several times, but it was just about all over by 9pm. That seemed faster than I remember, although to be honest I don't really remember much about the last time. I feel sure that last time a lot more poo was expelled, but last night it was more water than poo. Maybe my cheese rolls and ice cream was less substantial to whatever I ate the last time I had to do this.

  It was quite a relief that it was just about all over after a couple of hours. It meant I could sleep almost normally without having to keep getting up in the night. I guess I watched most of my normal TV last night, and probably headed to bed at around 10pm. I still was worried about having to leap out of bed to get to the toilet, and so I turned my fan heater on low, and left it on all night so I could sleep on top of the bed without getting under, and tangled up with the duvet.

  It was a cold night, and by 6am, when I should have started my second and final dose of Plenvu, I turned the heater up full because I was feeling almost shivery. I actually started my second dose nearer 7am than the recommended time of 6am. I doubt it will matter. This second dose is to make me pass water through my digestive tract to wash out any thing left behind from the first dose.

  I did get up once in the night to pee, and possibly a second time. When I finally got up I needed to pee, but as expected, I didn't need to poo. When I weighed myself I found I had lost a mere 100gm compared to yesterday's already low figure. My blood glucose was probably higher because of the large portion of ice cream I had, but it was still nice and low without being too low. The average of all three readings was 6.97mmol/l. One of the lowest averages since a one off on August 26th when I had an average of 6.57mmol/l for some now unknown reason.

  Well the PlenVu is certainly doing it's job. Within 10 minutes of finishing the second dose I went to the toilet and passed a fair bit of solid matter. Almost every 10 minutes I've been going back to the toilet, and the amount of solids has decreased to nothing but brown water, and the last visit was, as far as I could see, clear water. With luck it should be settling down now, and I can have a good rest before I get myself ready to go out to the hospital.
 
  My appointment time is 3pm, but I have to be there early for checks and proddings from a nurse. Plus I have to get into my special pants with a big slit up the back, as well as all the blood pressure and stuff checks. I had better leave here about 2pm so I don't have to rush through the park, and get my blood pressure up. They estimate my probings may last as much as an hour, and so I hope I am released soon after 4pm. Then I should be picked up by Jo who will drive me home, and pop in for a while for a glass of chilled water, and hopefully the chance to meet Cous Cous.