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NO PROBALEM

For those who follow these things, I went to the ass doctor today and had the possibility of a polyp checked out.

No polyp.

No cancer.

Just a diagnosis of a problem long known of. One I can live with.

Unless my own doc says otherwise. But he has known about it too.

The whole experience was one that put me back in believing that there are good docs who care.

Let's face it. Or, take the other end if you will.

It is not easy to go and have your butt examined.

I don't care how brazen you are and I am up there on the b-scale.

Then add the threat of the big C and a bit of worry about what a polyp really is exactly (I looked it up in the Mayo Clinic site and was still not sure).

This guy has the comfort of the patient all down.

He started bang on time.

He was interested. Efficient but still a bit cozy.

Then the sigmoidoscopy.

Not a big deal.

It is like a dentists chair only you lie on your stomach and it turns the other side up.

A guided tour is given. "Now I am doing this, now I am doing that".

He gets in there with a balloon thing.

No pain.

It didn't take long.

We had our little talk.

He told me he could fix the problem if I wanted.

He did not say I had to fix it.

We parted friends.

He even spelled out the words "hypertrophied papilloma".

A normal bud that gets over blown.

The bowel is full of little buds soaking up all that nutrition.

I have not been to a specialist other than my eye doc (opthalmologist) for ten years and then for prostate cancer and no more.

Well, I had a skin doc once.

I am a lucky dude. A lot of people have a whole bouquet of attending physicians, especially these days of increasing specialty.

So that is it.

If I do decide to have this thing fixed, it involves a half hour out-patient thing and a bit of recuperation from cutting.

Cutting.

I am surgery averse. Did I tell you?

No MRSA for me, thanks. And I do not believe in malpractice suits. I have gotten off juries over that one so I have to maintain the position.

Would I have surgery if I absolutely had to?

Sure.

Last resort.

If not, no.

This ain't it.

Labels: health