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Mary-Lou WeismanYour mother kept a baby book documenting your first steps, first haircut and first words, so why can't you keep one to commemorate your first colonoscopy?
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Step Inside the Inflatable ColonSeriously. It's a strange way to get people speaking about the unspeakable -- and it's working. When we heard about the giant 20-foot inflatable super colon, we had to check it out. And now we're talking about it. Mission accomplished.
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On Colon CleansingBeing a person who is into rituals, on this glorious Sunday morning, I brewed my coffee and picked up my low fat granola bar before leisurely seating myself at the computer to check my emails. I immediately saw where two high school classmates had left me messages on Facebook. I excitedly clicked on the link only to discover that their messages were the same: both were extolling the virtues of...
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Too Many Doctors to Stay Healthy!Guaranteed, if you go to doctors they will find something wrong with you. For sixty-two years I was healthy. Had chicken pox and measles before the age of six. After that, an occasional cold and the flu, three times that I can remember. That’s it. Was never in the hospital as a patient, only as a visitor and an employee. For a few years I was an administrator at Mount Sinai in New York. I...
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Colonoscopy Procrastination
There are few things more irritating to me than getting a spirited, cheery phone call from a 20-something-year-old in my doctor’s office on the morning I’m supposed to be in that office for a yucky age-related procedure, but I’m not there. This is how one such call recently went: “Good morning, Ms. Roxby – this is Mary Louise Catherine (Alabamians love double and triple first names) -...
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At What Cost...Pain?What we’ll do to feel better, right? Sal was looking wildly forward to what was inside the...
