One strong word on screening, and on taking care of your health in general…the time to take care of yourself is before something goes wrong. Once you experience a major illness, health insurance becomes prohibitive, if you can get it at all. In many cases, serious illnesses can’t be avoided, but we should work to head off those that can be.

Someone recently Tweeted “health is wealth” and I think that has boatloads of merit!

I’m also very impressed that I’ve communicated with you a few times over the past few months and never suspected a thing.

I hope she gets her wish!

I wholeheartedly give my sincere wishes to your family. I always believe in one simple thing, “Health is Wealth”.

Finally, the thing you shared is just an other example of how important that it is that we look after our health and get all the respective tests done in time.

Best in Health to your Mom and its great to hear she doing great.
SJ

I feel for you though because I can only imagine how frightening this must have been for your entire family.

Thanks for turning this into a teachable moment Mike. I think maybe you just saved some lives.

Our health insurance would not pay for the exam of course because she was suppose to wait until 50. We felt strongly that she should get it so we paid for the whole thing out of pocket and thank goodness. They found the polyp on the first exam, then in a 2 hour turn around put her back under to look again at the whole shebang and removed the polyp.

She is good to go but needs regular colonoscopies from here on in.

Kind of screwed up with the whole insurance bullshit, especially when we have a $3000 each deductible and pay close to $8000 a year…isnt there suppose to be something about ENCOURAGING PREVENTIVE medicine…but I digress.

Kind regards, Capt. Mike

Thank you sincerely for being willing to talk about it, though. Hopefully the sharing of stories like your father’s will give another reader here enough of a push to go get screened.

And thank you for the good luck wish to my mom.

My Father never got screened for anything (“too busy”) and died from preventable prostate cancer a year after being diagnosed (I think they estimated that he had it for nearly 8 years).

Thanks for the reminder about the importance of screening and good luck to your Mom.

And, I hope she has another 50 too!