52 Card Project 2022

New year, new 52 Card Project. As I did last year, I'm doing it as entirely digital series, since I'm using transparency effects in so many cards.

I will post the cards as I do them each week in a table here. Clicking on the link in the title for each card will take you to the post about the individual card.

( This is what the 2022 52 Card Project looks like so far )

Click here to see the 2025 gallery.

Click here to see the 2024 gallery.

Click here to see the 2023 gallery.

Click here to see the 2021 gallery.

Click here to see the 2016 gallery.

52 Card Project 2022: Week 1: Prep

There's nothing glamorous about the theme of this particular card, but it's definitely what preoccupied me this week: I had a colonoscopy on Friday (yesterday), so I spent a good part of the week in colonoscopy prep. For those of you too young to know about this process, it's quite unpleasant.

A week before the colonoscopy (December 31) I eliminated nuts and seeds from my diet. As someone who is trying to eat whole food/plant-based, this is a big deal. I sadly had to ignore the pomegranates hanging out in my refrigerator, leftover from holiday meals.

On Monday, I had a covid test. On Tuesday, I started a low fiber diet, which is the exact opposite of the way I ordinarily try to eat. On Thursday, I started an all-liquid diet and then in the evening started the process to empty my digestive system entirely. I'll spare you the details.

All went well. They found about three small polyps, which they will test/examine, to see if they were pre-cancerous. Not to worry, since they were removed, but it will determine whether my next colonoscopy will be in 5, 7, or 10 years.

This, as I said, was unpleasant, but getting this procedure done is part of being a responsible adult.

Grateful thanks to my daughter Fiona, who drove me to the hospital and hung out with me during my post-anesthesia daze afterward.

The card shows an artist's rendition of the human digestive system, overlaid with a bottle of Gatorade with a glass of Gatorade mixed with laxative, and a cup of Jello ("Breakfast of Champions") with toilet paper below.

(I'd also like to note in passing my intense irritation that when one Googles "human digestive system," about 95% of the results show a cross-section of a male human being. No, men are not default human beings.)

Prep



Click here to see the 2022 52 Card Project gallery.

Click here to see the 2021 gallery.