[Crw-talk] A non-woodturning topic

[John & Donna Griffiths]

Members,

This is a topic I feel very strongly about.

Today I participated in another medical procedure that had kept me 
around to to keep turning:  my latest colonoscopy.  Not a topic for 
polite conversation perhaps *but* a tropic that has kept me alive for 
the past 30 plus years.  Both of my parents have died from colon cancer, 
my father 53 years ago, my mother 33 years ago.  They died before the 
current technology for prevention was developed.  My only sibling had a 
cancerous polyp removed 30 years ago plus others that were precancerous 
over the years since.  I have cousins that grow colon polyps like a 
farmer grows soybeans.

I had one removed today, I have had perhaps 30 precancerous ones removed 
over the years and putting up with the preparation and sleeping through 
the procedure on nearly a yearly basis is really not a nice way to spend 
a couple of days but the fact that I am here writing this is payment 
enough to miss a couple of days woodturning.  (In my case I also had a 
nice wet wood piece dry out and crack on the lathe because I was not 
alert enough to operate nasty woodworking machinery while on the liquid 
diet.  Small price to pay.)

My reason for telling you this is simple.  Colon cancer is one of the 
most easily treatable and preventable cancers if caught early enough.  
If or when your doctor suggests you are due for one, get it done! Or you 
have a family history, tell your doctor.  Easy to say, "nobody is going 
to stick anything up my butt" but that is why I am alive and that is why 
I am preaching to you right now. If you have any questions, feel free to 
contact me.   Please, get them done as recommended according to your 
health history.

John

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