The White House announced this afternoon that President Bush will undergo a routine colonoscopy tomorrow while at the presidential retreat, Camp David. A clonoscopy procedure involves inserting this lovely instrument (see picture) through the rectum and its fiber optic camera allows direct visualization of the mucosal surfaces of the colon to catch cancerous changes early and improve survival. The current recommendations include those over 50 and of average risk to have a colonoscopy done every 10 years. So I got that to look forward to. Yay!
The president had a similar test performed in 2002 and received a clean bill of health. Interestingly enough the president will invoke section 3 of the 25th amendment and appoint Vice-President Dick Cheney to act as president during the 2 1/2 hours that the president will be under anesthesia. This will finally force Cheney into the executive branch of our government since, according to him, the office of the vice president is NOT a part of the executive branch and apparently belongs to the elusive '4th branch' that was curiously omitted from the constitution, perhaps due to printing constraints.
While the official word from the press secretary is that this procedure is routine, sources close to the White House have leaked that the test will be performed to rule out a particular condition known as cephalorectal inversus. (pictured below) Godspeed Mr. President. Godspeed.
No longer an intern (The Salt Lake Tribune, 7/6/13)
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Damn, you beat me to it. I was going to say, "howcan they fit the scope up there with his head already permanently inserted?"
On a related note, I had an endoscopy the other day and damn was that a good half hour of sleep!
(everything checked out o.k. by the way as I'm sure you were worried - just checking for esophageal cancer or some such nonsense).
Glad to hear it. Ray, send me your email address.(I assume this is Big Ray)
I'm quite upset with Vice-President Cheney. While the President was under anesthesia, the Vice-President missed a perfect opportunity to show our various enemies that sand, in fact, does burn.
John
Don't get down about it John; just because they stuck a "vice" in front of his title, that won't stop him. He shot a Friend in the face, those dastardly desert denizens don't dare disobey Dick.
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