Offline, or Just Out of It

Anneliese Fox
4 min readApr 3, 2024

I haven’t posting anything in a while. Not because I haven’t wanted to, but because I haven’t had the energy… and by the time I did, there was so much real life catch-up to do.

Stone wall. Image by author.

In October, I was scheduled for a colonoscopy. You know, that diagnostic procedure that according to tv, smart phones can’t spell check. (It’s a good thing that I don’t use my cell phone to write, I guess.)

Well, it’s not a spoiler alert that no colon cancer was detected.

Every time we elect to do something, there are a host of choices to make. Some are relatively easy, others are a crap shoot. So for the colonoscopy, I had to decide things like which doctor, what location, and what prep process.

The prep process was probably the easiest from my point of view. I told the person managing my procedure that the stuff used last time didn’t work all that well. She nodded and indicated that there was a different chemical soup that might work better for me.

As far as the doctor choice was concerned, I was at the same office as before (as recommended by my primary care physician), but the person who’d done the procedure before had retired. I said I didn’t have a preference, and once again my scheduler nodded and made a choice for me.

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Anneliese Fox
Anneliese Fox

Written by Anneliese Fox

Writer of speculative fiction, programmer, artist in wood and clay, owner of Fox Computer Systems. My almost weekly blog follows what interests me at the moment

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