FANTASTIC VOYAGE

FANTASTIC VOYAGE was a movie released in 1966.

A diplomat is nearly assassinated. In order to save him, a submarine is shrunken to microscopic size and injected into his blood stream with a small crew. Problems arise almost as soon as they enter the bloodstream.

Fantastic Voyage, 1966  (A remake of this movie is said to be 'in development')

Fantastic Voyage 1966

It appears that I am going to be the subject of a fantastic voyage of sorts...

I am very grateful that my colonoscopy and endoscopy which both took place about two weeks ago turned up no problems.  Yet, there is still there is an important unanswered issue with my anemia (blood loss)    What is the source of my anemia?

My gastroenterologist has ordered another test to try to determine the source of my anemia.  This procedure is far less invasive than the colonoscopy.  Tomorrow,  I will be ingesting a camera.  The camera is going to be the size of a 1" pill.  In order to prepare for this, I must have only clear liquids Today, Tuesday starting at 12 Noon... Once midnight strikes, I am to have absolutely nothing until Wednesday morning.  I will be going to the hospital on Wednesday morning to swallow my capsule and be fitted for a electronic medical 'belt' that I need to wear all day until around 4:30PM when  I must return to the hospital to return the belt.  (I guess I get to keep the camera!)

Here is a more clear and detailed description of a capsule endoscopy from the Mayo Clinic.

Capsule endoscopy is a procedure that uses a tiny wireless camera to take pictures of your digestive tract. The camera sits inside a vitamin-sized capsule that you swallow. As the capsule travels through your digestive tract, the camera takes thousands of pictures that are transmitted to a recorder you wear on a belt around your waist or over your shoulder. Capsule endoscopy helps doctors see inside your small intestine — an area that isn't easily reached with conventional endoscopy. Capsule endoscopy can be used by adults and by children who can swallow the capsule. 

It looks like I am going to have a particularly low calorie day today, Tuesday, especially starting at 12:00 Noon.... Another day of Yellow Jello, chicken broth and colorless liquids.  I guess I should be happy...at least I don't have to spend all day evacuating my colon again!

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 MONDAY MENU

breakfast     STARBUCKS low-fat turkey bacon, three apples, oat/honey 570 calories 

lunch           spinach salad w/hearts of palm, oat/honey granola                  458 calories

dinner          HUGE SPINACH SALAD w/egg, chicken, ham, crab, etc    750 calories

snack           oat/honey bar                                                                            300 calories

total calories   2078 calories

calories burned

STAIR CLIMBING (ground floor to 25th floor)  65 calories  (3 min, 40.68 sec)

6AM ELLIPTICAL 30 MINUTES (level 16, manual setting)  660 calories

STAIR DESCENDING (25th floor to ground floor) 15 calories (2 min, 27.71 sec)

TOTAL CALORIES BURNED  740 CALORIES

MONDAY NET CALORIES---------------------------------1338 CALORIES

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Fantastic Voyage starred 1960's actress, Raquel Welch...

from wikipedia...

Raquel Welch (born Jo Raquel Tejada; September 5, 1940) is an American actress. She first won attention for her role in Fantastic Voyage(1966), after which she won a contract with 20th Century Fox. They loaned her to a British studio, for whom she made One Million Years B.C. (1966). Although she had only three lines in the film, images of her in the doe-skin bikini she wore in it became best-selling posters that turned her into a celebrity sex symbol.

There were a lot of high school and college kids who had this poster of Raquel Welch as she appeared in One Million Years B.C. on their bedroom walls in the 1960's.  As I recall, I think I was one of them.

Raquel Welch, age 26   One Million Years B.C. (1966)

Raquel Welch, 2013  (Even if Raquel Welch is a plastic surgery masterpiece - She does still look pretty amazing as this actress was 73 years old when this photo was taken)