As the son of son of a plumber, I’m well aware of the importance of good pipes. This includes having your internal plumbing checked out to.
I don’t mind the actual procedure, since I’m drugged off into “lala land,” but I’m not too fond of the “day before” fasting and purging. It’s unpleasant drinking a barrel of a swill — even if it didn’t taste like factory runoff water.
TIP: While you ingest your Essence of Lake Erie, watch a mountain climbing documentary. I viewed Meru (excellent). No matter how uncomfortable I was, I realized I couldn’t possibly be as uncomfortable as the starving AND freezing climbers trying to sleep in a flimsy tent while hanging from a cliff. Everything is relative.
Kind of related, here is a one-minute plumbing scene from, not Meru, but from Moonstruck. Vincent Gardenia plays a copper-loving plumbing contractor: