[Crw-talk] A non-woodturning topic

[Bob Raasch]

Thanks John for sending reminder out to the group, great advice.    Bob

From: John & Donna Griffiths [mailto:griff at mwt.net] 
Sent: Monday, December 12, 2016 4:24 PM
To: crw-talk <crw-talk at crwoodturner.com>
Subject: [Crw-talk] A non-woodturning topic

 

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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