Up to now, when I underwent endoscopies, I didn't take a sedative. I was always awake during endoscopies.
Up to now, when I underwent endoscopies, I didn't take a sedative. I was always awake during an endoscopy = during each endoscopy

I took boat rides with life vests/with a life vest, I always wore a life vest on a boat ride = on each boat ride

When I told you that it have been one week since the committee meeting, but I didn't get any notice from JEINS, you said to me, "Usually bureaucracies move slowly." May the word, bureaucracy be used for an private company? *****