# What to do with my colonoscopy pictures? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 6, 2006, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-to-do-with-my-colonoscopy-pictures/367566 "2006-08-06T15:45:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![KlondikeGeoff](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3e96dc/32.png) [@KlondikeGeoff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KlondikeGeoff)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2006, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-to-do-with-my-colonoscopy-pictures/367566/1 "2006-08-06T15:45:00Z")
To my surprise, after the procedure they gave me a nice set of color photos of the inside of my colon. I thought these might be nice for my next Christmas card. Any other ideas what I could do with them? ---
**Author:** ![peri](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/67e7ee/32.png) [@peri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/peri)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2006, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-to-do-with-my-colonoscopy-pictures/367566/2 "2006-08-06T16:37:42Z")
Create and decoupage an [exhaust pipe sculpture](http://image.guardian.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/gallery/2003/06/27/610.jpg)? ---
**Author:** ![Lord\_Il\_Palazzo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Lord\_Il\_Palazzo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Il_Palazzo)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2006, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-to-do-with-my-colonoscopy-pictures/367566/3 "2006-08-06T16:49:20Z")
Darn, I come in here just to suggest putting them in your Christmas cards, and its right there in the OP! If you’ve got a scanner, you could use one of the pictures as your desktop wallpaper. ---
**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2006, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-to-do-with-my-colonoscopy-pictures/367566/4 "2006-08-06T16:50:23Z")
Post them! ---
**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2006, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-to-do-with-my-colonoscopy-pictures/367566/5 "2006-08-06T17:49:36Z")
One word: [rasterbate](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=382435)! ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2006, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-to-do-with-my-colonoscopy-pictures/367566/6 "2006-08-06T18:00:46Z")
> [@WhyNot](#): > > Post them! I second this. I volunteer at the local hospital in the G.I. Lab and I always wondered about the procedures I type up. ---
**Author:** ![Stainz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecd19e/32.png) [@Stainz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stainz)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2006, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-to-do-with-my-colonoscopy-pictures/367566/7 "2006-08-06T18:01:08Z")
> [@Hal Briston](#): > > One word: [rasterbate](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=382435)! Damn you Hal - you beat me to it!!! (To the OP - I had a colposcopy a few years ago - and asked if they could email me the digital photos that they took of my “yoohoo” for my Christmas cards - I don’t think they knew if I was kidding or not … hehe) ---
**Author:** ![sleestak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/919ad9/32.png) [@sleestak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sleestak)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2006, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-to-do-with-my-colonoscopy-pictures/367566/8 "2006-08-06T18:11:46Z")
Well, I posted pics from my operation [in this thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=382788). Slee ---
**Author:** ![Harmonious\_Discord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/74df32/32.png) [@Harmonious\_Discord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harmonious_Discord)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2006, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-to-do-with-my-colonoscopy-pictures/367566/9 "2006-08-06T18:14:20Z")
I asked for some pictures, when they did the procedure. I have saved them for when somebody gets out their horendous family photos I don’t want to see. I will be subjecting them to these at that point. Side note: I had a neighbor ask me to capture photos from video of his wife given birth. I told him that I was never goinig to set eyes on the video and I meant it. I can’t believe he asked me to do that. ---
**Author:** ![Miss\_Mapp](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miss_mapp/32/369_2.png) [@Miss\_Mapp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miss_Mapp)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2006, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-to-do-with-my-colonoscopy-pictures/367566/10 "2006-08-06T18:18:54Z")
Coincidentally, when I had this same procedure done a few years ago in December, and they handed me a set of lovely pictures of my colon to take home with me, the first thing I said was, “Too late to go out with the Christmas cards.” 🙂 I think I still have them in an envelope here in the desk. Why keep them? Memories, I guess… ---
**Author:** ![amijane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f0a364/32.png) [@amijane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amijane)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2006, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-to-do-with-my-colonoscopy-pictures/367566/11 "2006-08-06T19:57:13Z")
I got a lovely photo of an unexpected ulcer when I had an endoscopy last year. I drew a happy face on the ulcer and sent it on a card to my boss with ‘Thanks for the Ulcer! You owe me a payrise. Smoochies xx’ written inside. My boss loved it and still has it in his office 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![MostlyClueless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba9def/32.png) [@MostlyClueless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MostlyClueless)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2006, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-to-do-with-my-colonoscopy-pictures/367566/12 "2006-08-06T20:15:59Z")
So, did you get the raise? (I can’t imagine doing something like that, but I’m glad he, er, appreciated it.) ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2006, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-to-do-with-my-colonoscopy-pictures/367566/13 "2006-08-06T20:19:17Z")
**KlondikeGeoff** –get enlargements made, frame em, & hang them over the mantlepiece. After all, they caught your best side! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Bam\_Boo\_Gut](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8c91f0/32.png) [@Bam\_Boo\_Gut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bam_Boo_Gut)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2006, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-to-do-with-my-colonoscopy-pictures/367566/14 "2006-08-06T21:05:50Z")
> [@amijane](#): > > I got a lovely photo of an unexpected ulcer when I had an endoscopy last year. I drew a happy face on the ulcer and sent it on a card to my boss with ‘Thanks for the Ulcer! You owe me a payrise. Smoochies xx’ written inside. My boss loved it and still has it in his office 🙂 Excellent! I’m going for this colonoscopy next week and was wondering what to do with the results! ---
**Author:** ![Kalhoun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3bc359/32.png) [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2006, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-to-do-with-my-colonoscopy-pictures/367566/15 "2006-08-06T22:09:14Z")
I didn’t get pictures of mine, but if I did, I’d take 'em to Kinkos and have wrapping paper made out of them. Either that or I’d sell 'em on E-bay. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2006, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-to-do-with-my-colonoscopy-pictures/367566/16 "2006-08-06T22:39:43Z")
> [@Harmonious Discord](#): > > I asked for some pictures, when they did the procedure. I have saved them for when somebody gets out their horendous family photos I don’t want to see. I will be subjecting them to these at that point. > > Side note: I had a neighbor ask me to capture photos from video of his wife given birth. I told him that I was never goinig to set eyes on the video and I meant it. I can’t believe he asked me to do that. Basically I agree with this. Have some ready at home and work if someone else insists in showing off baby pictures. Say, “This is MY baby”. ---
**Author:** ![cerberus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/71e660/32.png) [@cerberus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cerberus)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2006, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-to-do-with-my-colonoscopy-pictures/367566/17 "2006-08-06T22:52:49Z")
Screensavers?