“My Colonoscopy” ~ By Dave Barry

 

"You want me to turn it up" said Andy,  from somewhere behind me.  "Ha ha," I said. And then it was time, the moment I have been dreading for more than a decade. 


If you are squeamish, prepare yourself, because I am going to tell you, in explicit detail, exactly what it was like. 


I have no idea.  Really.  I slept through it. One moment, ABBA was yelling "Dancing Queen, feel the beat of the tambourine," and the next moment, I was back in the other room, waking up in a very mellow mood. 


Andy was looking down at me and asking me how I felt. I felt excellent. I felt even more excellent when Andy told me that it was all over, and that my colon had passed with flying colors. 


I have never been prouder of an internal organ. 


The author is a Pulitzer Prize winning humorist columnist for the Miami Herald.