Sunday, January 25, 2009

My Colonoscopy is scheduled...Is Yours?

Well, a part of having had colorectal cancer is having a yearly colonoscopy...followed by another pet scan in the middle of the year. There is really nothing to it if you are over 50. If you are younger than that and colon cancer runs in your family( ahem, sisters are you listening to me,I hope so,cause I love you so much that I don't want you to experience the world of cancer...or anybody at that)you May get a referral or just plain lying about irregular stools may get you somewhere. SO while you are sitting on the couch and viewing a similar colon cancer screening commercial as I did, please take it seriously, it could save your life. I'm from that 10% they don't talk about on the commercials,or write about on the statistic chart(it's usually about the 90%of those diagnosed are 50 and older.)So take it from a 33 year old colon cancer survivor,w/no history of colon cancer in my family...Please take time to schedule your colonoscopy:-)

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