Just catching up with the thread (and life and other stuff) after an interesting few days.
Our hearts go out to Pushka.
So this week I sandwiched a colonoscopy around client meetings and and a heap of research. Everyone on my team knows how much fun the preparation days aren't, there was much joking and commiseration. And there were a few people who said "nope, not doing that". But seriously, it wasn't that bad (my third), there's a family history, they picked up a few lovely polyps on my first time round, and this time I have a clean bill of health. Don't come back for five years.
Next day (ie, yesterday) we got word that one of our closest friends has died from colon cancer.
So my message to anyone who will listen is: this is largely preventable. No matter how coughpy you think the preparation is (or no matter what you've have heard), it doesn't hurt and it's so much less annoying than having to treat a cancer.
Maiz.