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[Mister Rog]

I keep on receiving offers from the NHS to carryout a yearly Bowel Cancer Test.

The trouble is they expect me to collect my poo and send samples in special packs through the post; sure I am going to do that!

I'll take the risk that you very much!

If you steel yourself and do it , it's not that bad. I put it off, but then did it. It's very nice when you get a letter saying that all is well 

The one I did you didn't need to actually collect any poo, just scrape a wooden stick in it and smear it onto a self sealing card, done three times on three different poos.  Did everyone enjoy their breakfast this morning !   

[henryd]

I keep on receiving offers from the NHS to carryout a yearly Bowel Cancer Test.

The trouble is they expect me to collect my poo and send samples in special packs through the post; sure I am going to do that!

I'll take the risk that you very much!

If you steel yourself and do it , it's not that bad. I put it off, but then did it. It's very nice when you get a letter saying that all is well 

The one I did you didn't need to actually collect any poo, just scrape a wooden stick in it and smear it onto a self sealing card, done three times on three different poos.  Did everyone enjoy their breakfast this morning !   

No,mine tasted like shit

[2boxerdogs]

I keep on receiving offers from the NHS to carryout a yearly Bowel Cancer Test.

The trouble is they expect me to collect my poo and send samples in special packs through the post; sure I am going to do that!

I'll take the risk that you very much!

If you steel yourself and do it , it's not that bad. I put it off, but then did it. It's very nice when you get a letter saying that all is well           










The one I did you didn't need to actually collect any poo, just scrape a wooden stick in it and smear it onto a self sealing card, done three times on three different poos.  Did everyone enjoy their breakfast this morning !   

     






The test is better than ending up with a bag or in a box six feet under .

[aaronjb]

Re bowel cancer tests , I am sent an annual test kit from the national screening agency . It's a simple stool smear sample and they even sent a pair of disposable gloves in the kit. I'm not sure if Bowel cancer is more prevalent in males but frankly I'd advice you to have the test done .

Re blood tests . There is no NHS in this simple little country so after paying my € 40 to see a doctor I have to pay another €25 to have the ,almost deriguour, strongly advised blood sample taken and tested .
I attended my doctor last week to have a cat bite examined . I agreed to the blood test as my hand was very badly swollen and painful to touch. When I returned the following day for my second of four antibiotic injection ( € 11 each ) I asked for the results and was told " I don't have them at hand but they were all clear".
I honestly don't know if the blood was analysed .
Value your NHS .......

You got to see a doctor, presumably quickly, for very little cost.. I think you may have the better deal, there.

If I tried that here my hand would have dropped off or healed itself, one or the other, long before an appointment with the GP came around.

[Doctor Gollum]

I keep on receiving offers from the NHS to carryout a yearly Bowel Cancer Test.

The trouble is they expect me to collect my poo and send samples in special packs through the post; sure I am going to do that!

I'll take the risk that you very much!

If you did get bowel cancer you'd feel pretty daft when sat in the chair for an afternoon having your regular chemo session, when laying down on the bench of the radiotherapy machine every day for 6 weeks, and when being wheeled into the operating theatre to lose most of your colon resulting in wearing a colostomy bag for the rest of your life......  Just because you couldn't be bothered to collect a bit of poo and send it off in the post!    

Seconded...

Besides, your shit doesn't stink, so can't see what the issue is...

[Lizzie Zoom]

I'm 64 and already had a very full life with tremendous experiences, including a number of near death ones. 

I have learnt that when I reach 'that date and time' God has selected there is no argument and it is fine, I will go laughing all the way!

What will be will be!  That is how I have lived my life.

[Sir Tigger KC]

I'm 64 and already had a very full life with tremendous experiences, including a number of near death ones. 

I have learnt that when I reach 'that date and time' God has selected there is no argument and it is fine, I will go laughing all the way!

What will be will be!  That is how I have lived my life.

There's nothing to laugh at about months and years of gruelling and painful cancer treatments Lizzie, and I find your attitude incredibly stupid IMHO. 

[2boxerdogs]

I'm 64 and already had a very full life with tremendous experiences, including a number of near death ones. 

I have learnt that when I reach 'that date and time' God has selected there is no argument and it is fine, I will go laughing all the way!

What will be will be!  That is how I have lived my life.

There's nothing to laugh at about months and years of gruelling and painful cancer treatments Lizzie, and I find your attitude incredibly stupid IMHO. 

   


Agree fully I have been on this forum for about 7 years and that is without doubt the most stupid comment I have ever read.

[pauls]

We have just moved to somerset and i needed my headache tablet perscription renewed. I rang the local doctors to see if i could get seen, answer yes come in tomorrow but will need a urine sample when you see the doctor.
 I saw the doctor who did a dip test and said you have blood in your wee. Please do another sample and we can send it off for tests. Thats back now got a phone call from my new doctor blood still they and i now have to
Go into hospital for one of those tube/camera things stuck up my w...... . Morral of the story whether the doctor is new, old or in my case jyst a different doctor listen to them and act on it.

[Nick W]

We have just moved to somerset and i needed my headache tablet perscription renewed. I rang the local doctors to see if i could get seen, answer yes come in tomorrow but will need a urine sample when you see the doctor.
 I saw the doctor who did a dip test and said you have blood in your wee. Please do another sample and we can send it off for tests. Thats back now got a phone call from my new doctor blood still they and i now have to
Go into hospital for one of those tube/camera things stuck up my w...... . Morral of the story whether the doctor is new, old or in my case jyst a different doctor listen to them and act on it.

seems like your doctor went to the same school of diagnostics as most dodgy mechanics:


Mechanic - the EML is on, the ECU must be oppsed.
Doctor - patient has headaches, stick a camera up his arse


Hope you get some relief soon

[Mr Gav]

I'm 64 and already had a very full life with tremendous experiences, including a number of near death ones. 

I have learnt that when I reach 'that date and time' God has selected there is no argument and it is fine, I will go laughing all the way!

What will be will be!  That is how I have lived my life.

Fair play to you Lizzie, it`s all about enjoying the time you have on this planet not how long, as a mate of mine used to say "I`m here for a good time not a long Time" 

[Lizzie Zoom]

I'm 64 and already had a very full life with tremendous experiences, including a number of near death ones. 

I have learnt that when I reach 'that date and time' God has selected there is no argument and it is fine, I will go laughing all the way!

What will be will be!  That is how I have lived my life.

Fair play to you Lizzie, it`s all about enjoying the time you have on this planet not how long, as a mate of mine used to say "I`m here for a good time not a long Time" 

Exactly right, but some on here find it "stupid" not to have the check up. Why?  It is up to me and my beliefs!  My body is wearing out like everyone else's, and do I want to live a long life that may be bed ridden, or just needing so much support that just won't be there?

My great aunt lived to 95, and hated it! Both parents died at 88, weak and suffering from illness, waiting for death like the aunt.  I will live a full life until the moment my body breaks, and then I will go in peace and dignity, not as a pain ravaged, helpless, old wreck.  Some people it seems don't like my ideas on that; bloody tough!  I have faith, and that powers me on and cannot wait to fly away from the evils of this world when the time is right.

[Lizzie Zoom]

I'm 64 and already had a very full life with tremendous experiences, including a number of near death ones. 

I have learnt that when I reach 'that date and time' God has selected there is no argument and it is fine, I will go laughing all the way!

What will be will be!  That is how I have lived my life.

There's nothing to laugh at about months and years of gruelling and painful cancer treatments Lizzie, and I find your attitude incredibly stupid IMHO. 

.........as my post above, and for the record my mother had cancer and my father had 3 massive strokes.  I am NOT being "incredibly stupid", just very calculating, accepting the inevitable in a dignified way in line with my faith.

[Doctor Gollum]

Screening and diagnosis both help with developing new treatments... so it could be argued that your behaviour is selfish and rubs against the fundamentals of your faith...

Unless of course, you're a member of the 'I'malrightjack' club.

[2boxerdogs]

Screening and diagnosis both help with developing new treatments... so it could be argued that your behaviour is selfish and rubs against the fundamentals of your faith...

Unless of course, you're a member of the 'I'malrightjack' club.

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Perhaps it's just fear.