Bottoms up!
Not wanting to bring up subject matter which will certainly make readers squirm – (you know) like PM Trudeau’s treatment of Alberta, or Daddy Trudeau’s National Energy Program – I decided instead, to talk about colonoscopies.
Yes I got one. Actually several now, because a few years ago they removed the mother of all polyps from my colon. So, now I have to go back more often than most people including last week.
I remember the brilliant Dr. Ferguson at the Royal Alex telling me: “It’s not people’s diets. It’s not genetic. It’s 50 years old. For some reason at the age of 50 this becomes a problem in humans,” he said, or something along that line as I was still partially sedated.
I was a very lucky person. Polyps given time can turn to cancer. With a large polyp like the one Dr. Ferguson removed, it was really just a matter of time. That’s why it is so important to go for a colonoscopy when reaching the age of 50. I didn’t go until I had a bad reading from my FIT test and that was well into my 50s. Even then I wanted to avoid this uncomfortable procedure.
Thank goodness my wife did not want me to avoid it. Most statistics in Canada show that only about half of Canadians ever get checked for colon cancer. Of course that would require going to a doctor to begin with, something some people (men in particular) have an aversion to doing. . . . contd.
