tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7263788220250087491.post58899651024626730..comments2023-05-12T05:10:30.674-06:00Comments on Hamguin's Hide-not: Advice for the 50-and-older setRick Hamrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09621981388013851089noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7263788220250087491.post-8769488278362205312009-11-10T14:26:16.000-07:002009-11-10T14:26:16.000-07:00Erika--
Of course, I am first glad you are a surv...Erika--<br /><br />Of course, I am first glad you are a survivor, and secondly glad because I never would have met you had you not survived your cancer.<br /><br />As much time as I spent regretting the need for it, I was completely stunned at how easy it was. Literally, ten times easier than that silly procedure I had five years ago for which I was allowed to remain conscious.<br /><br />Colonoscopies may not be fun, but they are barely a blip on the radar--one day without food (and a couple of liters of clear-you-out stuff in the evening) and a morning with your hind end exposed in a really unattractive hospital gown, and you're done.<br /><br />By the way, I was serious about the doc groups' tagline. I gave them shit about it, too, and the guy who was doing my procedure just grinned.Rick Hamrickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09621981388013851089noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7263788220250087491.post-61308951320717138902009-11-10T14:01:53.000-07:002009-11-10T14:01:53.000-07:00Rick:
I'm so glad you wrote this. Don't k...Rick:<br />I'm so glad you wrote this. Don't know if I told you this the other day, but I am one of those rare survivors (7 years NED) of late stage colon cancer. <br />I was one of those who was "never going to have one of those" screenings.<br />(No, I wasn't!) I was actually viewing Katie Couric's live c-scope in NYC (on Broadway) and saying (to her)..."I don't care what you say - I'm not having one of those!"<br />Two or three years later, I was being told by the GI doc "I have good news and bad news". <br />Good news: ".....you're not going to have to wear a bag." Bad news: "There's tumor there..."<br />I now say "colonoscopies are fun!".<br />Because of my own experience, most everyone who surrounds me has had theirs.<br />Glad you wrote this.<br />erikaRick Hamrickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09621981388013851089noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7263788220250087491.post-54409533412822027682009-08-03T04:25:44.906-06:002009-08-03T04:25:44.906-06:00Julie, I agree with you that I am lucky to miss th...Julie, I agree with you that I am lucky to miss that uncomforrtable indignity. At the same time, you never have to hear someone say, someone whose head is down at a level where they can examine parts I don't make a habit of showing people, "Turn your head and cough."<br /><br />It is not as physically distressing as a mammogram, but no guy really thinks it much fun to have someone ask him to cough while they are checking out his reproductive pieces parts.<br /><br />I just read of your Asheville adventure: good to know I can simply cadge others' photos of Chimney Rock and save the knees.Rick Hamrickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09621981388013851089noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7263788220250087491.post-8648319581643799142009-08-03T04:17:20.103-06:002009-08-03T04:17:20.103-06:00Another great thing about the big 5..0. eh? At lea...Another great thing about the big 5..0. eh? At least you don't have to have your boobs squooshed between two cold metal plates. Now THATS fun....Juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01307762555108511788noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7263788220250087491.post-5823102328173308062009-08-01T09:20:04.953-06:002009-08-01T09:20:04.953-06:00Lynilu, here's one way to think about it: as l...Lynilu, here's one way to think about it: as long as you continue to postpone, you have every day to dread what is coming.<br /><br />If, instead, you go ahead with it, you are done with dreading!<br /><br />Sphinc! So good to hear from you. And, yes...how appropriate, given the topic.<br /><br />Kelly--I'm happy to have someone else chime it. In all honesty, one of the reasons I simply got it done was a column Dave Berry wrote some years ago, a column I ran across a few weeks ago.<br /><br />His column delivered the same message as this blog post does, although he was certainly much funnier in getting the word across.<br /><br />Thanks to all of you for stopping by and leaving me a little missive so I know you were here!Rick Hamrickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09621981388013851089noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7263788220250087491.post-14649627951829611432009-07-30T19:29:11.087-06:002009-07-30T19:29:11.087-06:00Wonderful and educational post, Rick! I have had o...Wonderful and educational post, Rick! I have had one and I didn't find it to be a big deal at all.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7263788220250087491.post-28726016895709146732009-07-28T17:07:54.542-06:002009-07-28T17:07:54.542-06:00Rick, I haven't been here in months and I feel...Rick, I haven't been here in months and I feel right at home already. :) I've got a while to go before this pleasure will be mine, but I WILL uh...face (so to speak) the music when the time comes.Sphincterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17080910412365862163noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7263788220250087491.post-80515101835230843262009-07-28T09:15:03.251-06:002009-07-28T09:15:03.251-06:00I'm due. I have a referral. I'm dragging m...I'm due. I have a referral. I'm dragging my feet. I don't mind the colonscopy or the events that are subsequent. But that day before ....<br /><br />I'll do it and soon. But for now, I'm choosing to wallow in a bit of self-pity over the memories of events past.<br /><br />sigh.Lyniluhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04742585512852240355noreply@blogger.com