I swallowed a camera today!

As I write this blog, this tiny camera with a strobe light and a wireless transmitter is photographing me from the inside.

A recent blood test indicated an iron deficiency and my doctor is concerned that there might be some internal bleeding. A gastroscopy and a colonoscopy showed nothing. These procedures cannot reach the small intestine so I am undergoing a capsule endoscopy. This camera will take 7000 photographs as it travels through my digestive system and transmit them , during a six hour priod, to the external receiver which you see below.

I will return the receiver to the doctor later today and he will view the results and I should know something in a couple of weeks. In the meantime the camera will pass through my system and be flushed away.