We're all too young....
Fear, trepidation, disbelief and anger are feelings that have recently circled through my body like a cyclone.Midway through my 40’s I didn’t expect to be carrying on my life like a 70 year old, fielding calls about friend’s various illnesses. I suppose I am exaggerating a little (the lovely and talented Catherine is nodding her cute little head to that one!), because it’s not an everyday occurrence, but it seems odd to be dealing with these things, and even odder to know that the people dealing with it are so young.
Neither of my parents made it to their 70th birthdays, so I feel I know a little bit about the fragility of life. Hearing this summer about one of my oldest friends being stricken with Colo-Rectal cancer was very shocking, 47 years old and having stage four cancer must have been a shock for her, let alone her family. Now we’re dealing with this all over again, finding out a couple of weeks ago about one of my wife’s and my dearest friends being stricken also by the colo-rectal bug.
Two women, two lives, one disease.
I spoke to a neighbour the other day and asked him (as a man somehow does) if he’s had the colonoscopy – to which he answered that his doctor told him to wait until he’s 50. My doctor told me the same thing, but I demanded he send me. My neighbour was willing to wait the three more years until he was 50, I strongly suggested he not wait.
It’s an interesting dilemma that we have in this world. Most people don’t develop colo-rectal problems until after 50, yet we’re dealing with two separate cases where one is only 47 and the other is 55 and thought to have been living with the disease for “5 or so” years.
So why are we waiting anyway?
This blog is generally something meant to be funny, interesting or a combination of humour, interest, ennui and twisted stories of nothingness, it’s not meant to be a medical advice column, however this is a gentle prod for any and all of you that are out there reading (at last count I have 6 readers!), if you haven’t been tested in the past 5 years and are over the age of 45, go see your doctor and ask him for a referral to have a colonoscopy. With the exception of the night before, the process is painless and the piece of mind that you might and most likely will be afforded is something that words can never define.
And now we return to our regularly scheduled programming….
Ever wondered…
What do chickens think that frogs taste like?
Is there such a thing as an un-guided missile?
If I go swimming naked am I skinny dipping, or chunky-dunking?
Can a vegetarian eat an animal cracker?
How come Permanent Press isn’t permanent?
How does one know when to tune their bagpipes?
Why does the drive-thru banking machine have Braille dots on the keypad (try it – it’s true!)
If you own the land your house is on, how deep into the ground do you own?
What you they call their nice plates in China?
What do blind people see in their dreams……..
Back in a flash!!!!!
posted by G.M. Shier @ Monday, November 23, 2009
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