Well I got a call from the hospital today, informing me that there is a bed and my own private room awaiting me in hospital with modern features like TVs and DVD players (WOW AMAZING), but there's just one catch.

The registrar (how ever you spell it) will only be in today, and not tomorrow, so I was given 3 hours notice to go to hospital at 2 o clock in the afternoon. Only 2 hours left as I type this. Another reason for going in a day early is so they could get me an early booking for a white cell test.

Now I'm going into hospital for two tests to determine just how bad the Crohns inflammation is on my bowels. These two tests are:

1) WHITE CELL TEST

They're going to stick a needle in my hand to extract some blood, and then the doctors will add a substance to that blood sample and inject it back into me. Then I have to sit in front of a few cameras, and behind a screen, the doctors can look through these X-Ray vision cameras and see where my white blood cells are travelling too, how many are travelling and how they fight the inflammation. They can get a rough idea from this how bad the inflammation is, and can get a rough idea on what doses and medication they should use to prescribe me. Then, the second test comes in.

2) COLONOSCOPY

Embarrasing to write about, not something to be laughed at, and utterly humiliating. First, on Thursday evening, they're going to give me a tablet to make me poop out everything that I can feel in my bowel. They will then starve me until midday on Friday. I will then be going in for the test. I will be fully sedated, and will have a camera shoved up my arse so the doctors can actually see the state of the inflammation for themselves. Then, they can work out the medication, prescribe and give it to me.

After that, I can go home, and try to start living a normal life again. Obviously, I'm scared right now. I keep getting told not to think about it, but I can't.

let's just hope these next few days go quick.