Prep: You'll want to die.
Procedure: Best nap you'll ever have.
First meal after: Out of body experience.
James Van Der Beek dead
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Prep: You'll want to die.
Procedure: Best nap you'll ever have.
First meal after: Out of body experience.
Get yourself checked people. One of my good friends passed away from cancer that started in his rectum. It had moved into his spine and liver before they ever found it and by then it was too late. He died 1 month before his 40th birthday.
yep, buddy from western iowa. colorectal cancer at 36. absolute stud athlete in high school. 2 kids and a wife left behind. Sad.
I knew a guy in SW Iowa that was only a few years older than me that died from pancreatic cancer a few years ago. He was kind of the health nut type. It definitely makes you put things into perspective. Colon and pancreatic cancer seem to be the worst. It seems like people already late stage before they even realize something is going on.
Yeah my buddy that I lost earlier this month learned he had stage 4 pancreatic cancer. Had enough time for one round of chemo which ended on a Friday. He was gone by Tuesday. He was 57.
Absolutely not.Are you sure it isn't more like this?
They make sure you’re sound asleep before getting down to business.
If you guys are tough enough to endure a lifetime of Cyclone fandom, you can handle a little colonoscopy.
Good luck on getting your brothers to go. 50+ they really should get one done. Hopefully they have insurance to cover it. Uninsured because of the cost factor I could see hesitation but from a health standpoint it's time to get it done.
How, though? If you don't have symptoms and family history, they won't do it before xx age (40 or 45).
Ask around to your family. I had one pre-cancerous polyp removed. I never would have expected that this would qualify as "family history" but when they told me about it they suggested I let family know. They can all say "family history" now.
My sister in law passed away from colon cancer. My wife had a colonoscopy due to that history (and they found some non cancerous polyps, but with the family deal and the polyps she now has to go with more frequency for colonoscopies now. Which Im happy about, she might not be, but I think overall its a great practice when the possibility is there.
I didn't think they put you all the way out. Thought they called it "twilight" rather than going completely under.
Or you can be grateful that your healthy, usually colon cancer signs don't show up till your terminal if I remember right. At either rate I'm glad you are healthy.
Same type of deal with the guy I knew. He did one round of treatment but it didn't really matter. The process from diagnosis to his passing lasted maybe 2 1/2 months. I had an uncle down in Scottsdale about 15 years ago that had a glioblastoma and it took him in like 6 weeks. Its just hard to comprehend. At some point you'd think as a society we'd start investing more from a public standpoint on wars that are actually a threat to us.
Sorry that you may have misconstrued that I am ungrateful. Could be because I did not waste my time by refuting the BS the egotistical Spartan painted in his post previous to mine. Maybe I should have spent more words, but chose not to.
So I will try to clarify what my opinion is. In my original post to this thread I suggested young people should have a scope done. As far as I know it is still one of the recommended procedures. My own experience is it was a total waste of a week of my life. I doubt I am the only one in this category.
To me this raises some questions. Is it impossible for modern medicine to find a better system than what we have? Why has very little been done in advancing this in 30 years? Are we sure healthy people could not be just as healthy by wasting one or two days instead of a whole week of their lives? What is being done to come up with simpler reliable tests that could be used instead of, or in conjunction with scopes and get satisfactory results?
I am convinced that change is an opportunity to make things better. I fail to see where the current system has been looking to change. This is all probably beyond the discussion necessary for this thread. We are not going to change anything here. In fact other than my own experience what do I have to add? So maybe better I choose to keep my posts brief, and then they can easily be misconstrued.
