Testing for better health, Would you do a “Colonoscopy”? I am..

Pre-Colonoscopy prep Kit

Story Time:

Back in 1986 when I was stationed at Branch Clinic, NAS Dallas, as a young buck HN, I worked in the primary care clinic.

One of the saddest things I ever saw was when our SMO (Senior Medical Officer) was comforting a Chief and his family
as the Chief had been diagnosed with Colon Cancer, and it was so far gone it was un-treatable.

6 Weeks later I saw the Chief’s wife in the clinic getting meds to deal with her husbands death.

Death.

From the time I first saw him to this date, 6 weeks.  A total of 6 weeks he had to say goodbye to his family, get things in order etc.

Death.

How did it get to this?

The Chief had plenty of warning signs, and he regularly missed appointments that was scheduled for him by his squadron Corpsman.
He missed annual/5 year PE’s for one reason or another.

The real reason though was he “HATED” medical.  He was afraid of us.

If he had had his appointments, at his age a simple “Guiac” test would probably have picked up on something, or he might have come clean about some issues he had.

Well, the whole reason I am going into this?  Tomorrow I face the “Camera”!

Upper, as well as Lower, if you get my drift…

No I don’t have issues, but I had in the past and they found a polyp that requires me to get this done every 2 years just to make sure.

Look no one likes this type of thing, today I got to wake up to a clear liquid diet, but also get to this:

At Walgreens this AM so I cam make a nice mix of 1 liter of swill that I have to start drinking 8 oz’s ever 30 mins until gone starting at 5:00 PM tonight and then wake up at 0400 tomorrow AM to do the same thing. My appointment is tomorrow at 0830.

The Final Mix Pre-Colonoscopy

I won’t have me or my family go through what this family suffered. I have friends who I ask if they are tested and they give me the “Whoo man that’s a one way street!”.

I call BS on that, your not very manly because your can’t suffer some pride swallowing for a test that doesn’t hurt and your not even awake for!
(If don’t remember it never happend! 🙂 )

Anyways, Doc’s out there, there are reasons for these tests, you may think your doing your Chief, or superior a favor by letting them get out of these simple tests, but it could bite them in the ARSE later and you as well.

Stand up and be the DOC!

Have a good weekend everyone, Mine will be errr… interesting..

🙂