When I had a colonoscopy I started to wake up just as the surgeon was 'withdrawing the instruments'and I then started shouting at him that he'd started without waiting for me to go to sleep! The nurse finally persuaded me that the proceedure was 'all over now'. I only had ulcerative colitis, but many are less fortunate - my husband's colon cancer had already spread to his liver and lungs by the time he was diagnosed and he passed away last year. Caught early, colon cancer is very treatable and I would urge anyone to have this proceedure if offered it!
Annie