On Monday I will get my third or fourth Colonoscopy. The first one I had, a very long time ago, pre cancerous cells were found and, three years later, a re-examination showed they had gone. Why? Well, that's the history of this sort of thing. However, had they not gone away, knowing there was cancer, and well in advance of it spreading could have saved my life. Oddly, all men, straight or gay, seem to have some sort of fear of having a small probe put up their anal canal. As I once said to my Doctor, "I'm a gay man, do you honestly think that's the largest, most intrusive thing I've eve had up there?" He laughed, his staff laughed and they're still laughing. However on the days when I go in I'm surrounded by men who seem to huddle within themselves; Apparently they feel they're about to be "violated", that the probe is really a portion of the human anatomy and, bingo, they're less than a manly man for allowing it to scoot around the folds and currunculatons of their colon. I don't give a rats ass as to how undignified, intrusive you may find this, if you are 45 or older, it's time to get a colonoscopy. Ask yourself, which is more invasive? a probe the size of a lentil bean or a scalpel of any size that's about to remove the basis for male sexuality, the prostate. Think about it and make an appointment.
