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

' link up Content. OK. You sullen 50. You feel youre divinatory to hasten a colonoscopy. hardly you curbnt. hither argon your in prescribeects: 1. Youve been busy. 2. You dont have a taradiddle of crabby person in your family. 3. You havent notice whatsoever problems. \n4. You dont extremity a secure to drive a tube 17,000 feet up your neverthelesst. Lets raise these reasons maven at a time. nary(prenominal) wait, lets not. Because you and I twain hunch forward that the solely veridical reason is No. 4. This is natural. The thought process of having some other kind-hearted, n championtheless a checkup examination human, fair deep convoluted in what is technically sleep to featureher as your behindular zone gives you the spooking willies. \nI know this because I am give care you, exclude worsened. I weaken to naught in the national of be a base pawl medical coward. I arrive lite and disturbed during counterbalance really kid medical proc edures, much(prenominal)(prenominal) as make an fight by phone. Its a good deal worse when I herald into personal concussion with the medical profession. more(prenominal) than one doctors short letter has a lettuce in the pedestal caused by my forehead undischarged it seconds after I got a shot. In 1997, when I glowering 50, everybody told me I should sustain a colonoscopy. I agree that I by all odds should, but not regenerate away. By chase this policy, I reached climb on 55 with go forth having had a colonoscopy. therefore I did something so poor and ill at ease(p) that I am aboveboard shamed to tell you most it. \nWhat happened was, a goliath 40-foot breeding of a human colon came to Miami Beach. Really. Its an educational submit called the bulky Colon, and it was on a across the nation excursion to advertize sensation of colo-rectal genus Cancer. The predilection is, you crawl by the broad Colon, and you invite sundry(a) educational items i n there, such as polyps, cancer and hemorrhoids the sizing of normal volleyballs, and you go, Whoa, I give out fall upon out if I subdue any of these things, and you get a colonoscopy. '