[Crw-talk] A non-woodturning topic

[Ken Grunke]

I'd say being alive and healthy has a LOT to do with woodturning.
Appreciate the advice, John!

Ken Grunke


On 12/12/2016 04:24 PM, John & Donna Griffiths 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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