Colon cancer is painless, so_it_may_be_2_late when_u realize you have it and it has spread everywhere.
That’s why I’m a big proponent of colonoscopies, especially if other people in your family died of the disease, like my dad did when I was five-years-old.
He had no idea that he had cancer, until he he had blood in his stool. Three weeks later, he was gone. The surgeons at the best hospital around tried their best, but there was nothing they could do.
Cancer will always be my nemesis.
I’m not saying that a colonoscopy is fun, and it isn’t the sort of thing you’d talk about in a casual social setting, but if they can nip it in the bud, then I’m all for it. I’ve had some pre-cancerous, or maybe a bit closer to cancerous polyps nipped in the bud during colonoscopies, but I’m alive to tell the tale.
Not shocked like my mother was when the bad news hit.
