Spring is slowly springing and that means ... time for all those medical checkups

First the dreaded colonoscopy.  Once every five years (if you check out okay at the last one) I get to drink copious amounts of fluid that runs through you like Niagara Falls.  The doc prescribed some odious cherry-flavored powder that you mix in a gallon container.  And I refused to drink that much liquid.  I knew I would cease to swallow half way through.  No way!  I was so grateful when his office said there was another way, with less to drink.  Of course it cost a lot more, but it's only every five years so I splurged.  (Splurging on something that makes you poop somehow sounds wrong - splurging on a new purse or pair of shoes makes more sense.)

The anticipation was far worse than the event, except I had to get up at 5 a.m. to finish drinking the vile liquid and I am not a morning person!

I'm happy to saw everything came out just fine...excuse the pun.

On Monday my sister underwent surgery because she had diverticulitis and developed an abscess in her intestines.

How did she let it get so bad?  Isn't the pain of diverticulitis a good clue that something's wrong?  When was her last colonoscopy?  I don't want to ask her these questions - they would only make her feel worse.

Yesterday I had my annual mammogram. No big deal.  Once a year, a few minutes of slight discomfort and done until next year.  I do wish a woman would invent a better machine.  I know it was a man because only a man would want a woman's breast squished like that.  Imagine if men had to undergo a penis flattening by pressure...the equipment would be improved quickly.

PLEASE have your regular checkups!  Make a check list for yourself and actually look at it at least once a year!  If my sister would have done that perhaps she'd still have the feet of intestines they had to remove.