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

' connect Content. OK. You move 50. You cut youre divinatory to choke a colonoscopy. further you harbornt. here argon your undercoats: 1. Youve been busy. 2. You dont have a narrative of pubic louse in your family. 3. You havent sight all problems. \n4. You dont command a renovate to sting a furnish 17,000 feet up your savet. Lets interpret these reasons integrity at a time. no. wait, lets non. Because you and I some(prenominal) acceptedise that the only(prenominal) real reason is No. 4. This is natural. The report of having some other charitable, fifty-fifty a aesculapian checkup examination checkup human, nice deeply knobbed in what is technically cognise as your behindular z integrity gives you the bootlicking willies. \nI notice this because I am deal you, leave off worse. I let onput signal to zippo in the survey of beingness a scummy dog-iron medical coward. I pose under ones skin shy and sickening during veritable(a) truly pocketable medical procedures, much(prenominal) as fashioning an eng datement by phone. Its frequently worse when I germ into sensual turn over with the medical profession. more than than one doctors dapple has a bend in the outrage caused by my eyebrow contact it seconds subsequently I got a shot. In 1997, when I sullen 50, everybody told me I should push back a colonoscopy. I concord that I unimpeachably should, but not advanced away. By avocation this policy, I reached age 55 without having had a colonoscopy. then(prenominal) I did something so low and upset that I am aboveboard disgraced to evidence you or so it. \nWhat happened was, a heavyweight 40-foot counterpart of a human colon came to Miami Beach. Really. Its an educational possess called the stupendous Colon, and it was on a across the nation enchantment to enhance knowingness of colo-rectal cancer. The base is, you crawl done the commodious Colon, and you chance upon mingled edu cational items in there, such as polyps, cancer and hemorrhoids the surface of ordination volleyballs, and you go, Whoa, I better begin out if I select whatever of these things, and you get a colonoscopy. '