Hi. So... I did the flush last night, and have just started seeing ... (results?)

I do find the Epsom Salts quite hard to swallow (and they leave a chalky feeling on my teeth - which I assume I should brush right away?)

But... The actual grapefruit juice and olive oil mixture I found to be not really unpleasant at all! After all the stuff about it making people vomit, and people not being able to swallow it. It tasted to me like extra nutritious grapefruit juice. Of course, since I love both olive oil and grapefruit juice, I guess I'm at an advantage.

So, I drank the stuff in a couple of gulps, cursorily brushed my teeth, and lay down directly in bed. As I lay there, I started feeling a familiar cramping feeling right under my right rib cage. I got scared for a moment that I would have some intensely painful cramping, but then took a couple of deep breaths and made myself relax. I soon fell asleep (no ornithine or other sleeping aid taken or required). All night, my area right below my ribs gurgled and sloshed, and sometimes also right at the bottom left abdomen. I slept pretty well, except for being slightly aware of all the activity going on in my intestines.

So, here I am this morning, 1/2 hour after taking my third (and almost last!) dose of Epsom Salts . I've had two movements, both of which have been about evenly mixed between what looks like mostly bile or biliruben or something (?) (it's yellow/brown and very soft, and what I was passing all day yesterday on the apple juice) and these little green balls of various colors. The green balls are seemingly all very soft. To be sure, they do also seem to be dark green inside, but what occurs to me is that I now really understand why skeptics of this process say that all the "stones" that people pass are actually congeled little balls of Olive Oil. I've read a lot of posts on this topic, including arguments back from people who really "know" these are actually stones. But to be honest, I guess I was expecting something a little harder, that actually seemed like a stone, or a seed or something! Not just these soft little globs of green.

Well, I'll keep y'all informed of how it all comes out in the end (pun intended.)

Until the next Captain's log, this is Gabza, signing out.