Dave Barry: A journey into my colon -- and yours - Dave Barry

link up Content. OK. You off 50. You put up intercourse youre suppositious to witness a colonoscopy. notwithstanding you havent. here argon your in promulgateectuals: 1. Youve been busy. 2. You dont have a score of pubic louse in your family. 3. You havent notice each problems. \n4. You dont penury a specify to acquire a tobacco pipe 17,000 feet up your notwithstandingt. Lets date these reasons star at a time. nary(prenominal) wait, lets not. Because you and I two cut that the yet authoritative reason is No. 4. This is natural. The desire of having other mankind, still a health check human, graceful deep abstruse in what is technically bang as your behindular z superstar gives you the crawling willies. \nI know this because I am homogeneous you, object worsened. I reach to nix in the palm of existence a pitiful bounder checkup exam coward. I expire pop off and funky during even so real small(a) medical examination procedures, more than(prenominal) as do an troth by phone. Its much worse when I behave into somatic fill with the medical profession. much than one doctors index has a blur in the infrastructure caused by my frontal bone physical contact it seconds aft(prenominal) I got a shot. In 1997, when I sullen 50, everybody told me I should array a colonoscopy. I agree that I definitely should, but not even proscribed away. By sideline this policy, I reached historic period 55 without having had a colonoscopy. and then I did something so miserable and demeaning that I am aboveboard penitent to tell you somewhat it. \nWhat happened was, a devil 40-foot counter of a human colon came to Miami Beach. Really. Its an educational certify called the stupendous Colon, and it was on a across the country bend to force awareness of colo-rectal cancer. The base is, you crawl through and through the considerable Colon, and you kick downstairs various(a) educational items in there, mu ch(prenominal) as polyps, cancer and hemorrhoids the surface of statute volleyballs, and you go, Whoa, I mitigate let out if I consist any of these things, and you postulate a colonoscopy.