It looks like chemo is on hold for now - next week my husband will go in for a follow up colonoscopy to check for more polyps. Right now - his doctor is taking blood samples to see if anything is showing up, and so far so good, so chemo is not planned for right now. We are both relieved - but that fear is there, and at the least he is looking at a 'scope job' every 6 months or so.
He really hates that prep for the 'scope job' - and anyone who likes drinking that goat piss needs to call 1-900-IAM-NUTS, but it does need to be done. But there is an angle to it - I think I am getting him to see that an enema will help lessen the effects of the prep, at least a little. And @charlie oneal - I have been telling him that enemas do some good. He knows I have a history with polyps - and that is one of the 'reasons' I have used to do my enemas, and he understands that, and so that is one way he knows I do enemas. And so far - knock on wood, my 'scope jobs' have been clean the last three times, I am on the every 2 year plan because of my prior history with polyps.
NOW - about getting him to understand where I am going, I did take some advice and I came straight out and told him that the enemas are now something I really like. That raised his eyebrows - a lot, and he sort of looked stunned when I told him that, I don't think he fully understood what I was trying to tell him. The look on his face when I told him - that I was now, officially, an enema lover was hard to read, and I hate it when I can't read his expressions. It really opened up a can of worms - sort of, he said he wondered why I was starting to take more enemas, before the last 2 - 3 years, I was doing enemas maybe 1 a month maybe less, and since certain things, I'm doing enemas at least 3 times a week. That night was a long one - I had to pick his jaw up off of the floor a couple of times, and with all of the other stuff going on, it was a lot to sink in. All that was a few days after the initial polyps on this last colonoscopy.
Since the 'good news' - we've done some more talking, lots of it, and I've asked him right to his face, to follow me back to my sewing room, and talk about things while I do an enema. I thought I was going to have to drag his ass back there - but he did come back finally, and sat there as I did an enema, and we talked, and talked, and talked. I've had him back to my sewing room - several times now, and it is a little easier to get him to go with me, but I get the feeling he doesn't quite get it. I asked him - a couple of times, to actually put the douche pipe in my ass, and he wasn't all that thrilled with doing it but he did it. So it is slow going - and I'm not real sure where it is 'going' to, I've also bought another anal jewel, and modeled it for him, even went out to dinner one night wearing it, and I could not get a real read on him. So far - he seems to be trying to understand, but it is like pulling teeth with him to get him 'into it'.
I am hoping that the need for more follow ups - and his hate of that prep, that I can sell him on enemas as a part of making it easier, I just don't know at this point.
Lora