Ray’s Blog

Colonoscopy: I had one, it was easy, what’s the big deal? It is a medical procedure performed by a doctor to determine if you have a disease. Period. Just like an alien abduction, I don’t remember it and afterwords couldn’t even feel that anything was done. I was thinking that I could understand the aversion better if we weren’t talking about full-grown, 40-plus-year-old adults, but rather children, as they may find it hard to separate a cancer that effects part of the digestive tract from “icky poo poo.” But for some reason, that elementary schoolyard mentality never goes away for most people and they just can’t get past it. There’s also something prudish about it. Is the anus so sacred that it cannot be desecrated by having something move into it instead of moved out of it? Shit no! more…