On Thu, 07 Dec 2006 03:34:56 GMT, §qu@r3 Wh33£s
wrote:

On this day of this month, in a year likely to be unrecorded in human
history, CWO4 Dave Mann wrote:


If you are over 50 please have your colon examined and don't worry
about the
side effects.

Cheers,

Dave

Beautifully written, Dave, and I'm a professional!

Very, very funny, but yes, folks, do have an exam at least yearly. My best
friend's father did, had cancer, had surgery and chemo and is doing just
fine now, a survivor. In a matter of a few weeks only.

OK, it usually makes guys .. uh .. antsy? .. similar to the Bobbit
Skrunchover .. but just DO IT !!

Sorry they found no probes, BTW -- you could have made a /killing/ on eBay......


SW


Well, I haven't posted much in this group, but I was just passing
(gas) through and had to comment.

Colonoscopy is recommended every TEN years after 50. It has to do
with how slowly cancers in that area grow. Most insurance companies
aren't going to pay more often than that. As for the procedure, only
the dance with the laxatives the night before is unpleasant. You will
feel absolutely nothing during the procedure (and I felt nothing
after--no gas or anything). When the surgeon said you're clean (I
heard him through that trippy sedated fog) you feel great! No Big C
fer me, thanks!

Sigmoidoscopy is hardly worth it given the much greater coverage of a
colonoscopy. I had exactly one. The device itself is not
painful--you're so greased up they could slide an Airbus 380 in. It's
the damn air they use to keep the colon inflated so that all nooks and
crannies are visible (I watched mine on the monitor). Cramps
almighty--you feel like you could leap tall buildings with the
pressure that builds up. And farting after! You'd think it would all
come out in one long blast, but noooo! You fart and fart for a day
(not smelly since you're cleaned out anyway).

So get your colonoscopies, you big babies over 50! Colon cancer is
one nasty way to die.

Now, a serious question. Airliners are pressurized to about 5000',
right? I wonder if that encourages or discourages farting (the
former, I would think). I know that I have delighted other passengers
on occasion, and wondered where the urge came from. I just hope to be
positioned to spray that annoying little brat seated near me. And his
mother who won't shut him up.