[Crw-talk] A non-woodturning topic

[Virginia Wintersteen]

Thank you for your important PSA

Ginny

On Dec 12, 2016 4:21 PM, "John & Donna Griffiths" <griff at mwt.net> wrote:

> 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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