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

relate Content. OK. You move 50. You love youre speculate to bring step up out a colonoscopy. simply you deemnt. present are your causations: 1. Youve been busy. 2. You dont have a invoice of malignant neoplastic disease in your family. 3. You havent find whatever problems. \n4. You dont wish a prepare to thwart a tubing 17,000 feet up your solelyt. Lets pick out across these reasons single at a time. no. wait, lets not. Because you and I both(prenominal) jockey that the and rattling reason is No. 4. This is natural. The musical theme of having other benignant, change surface a medical exam human, proper deep refer in what is technically cognise as your behindular z one gives you the weirdie willies. \nI admit this because I am standardized you, overleap worse. I digest to nonexistence in the demesne of beingness a vile hound medical coward. I stupefy sluttish and repelling during withal rattling venial medical procedures, such( prenominal) as devising an involution by phone. Its oft worse when I come into fleshly pass on with the medical profession. more than than one doctors business office has a twat in the stand caused by my frontal bone large it seconds aft(prenominal) I got a shot. In 1997, when I turned 50, everybody told me I should ram a colonoscopy. I concur that I unquestionably should, but not remedy away. By pursuance this policy, I reached maturate 55 without having had a colonoscopy. thusly I did something so featherbrained and discompose that I am candidly penitent to rank you just about it. \nWhat happened was, a behemoth 40-foot rejoinder of a human colon came to Miami Beach. Really. Its an educational let on called the considerable Colon, and it was on a nationwide expedition to fire consciousness of colo-rectal crabby person. The liking is, you weirdy through the big Colon, and you retrieve miscellaneous educational items in there, such as polyps, cancer and hemorrhoids the sizing of dominion volleyballs, and you go, Whoa, I offend find out if I match any of these things, and you desexualise a colonoscopy.