• Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    I hope by the time of my next colonoscopy (9 years), they’ll have figured this out to the point that it really works, because colonoscopy prep is the worst.

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      8 months ago

      My doctor just had me shit in a box.

      Honestly, I think I’d rather do a colonoscopy next time if the blood test isn’t a normal thing by then. Shitting into a box, then taping it up and delivering it to UPS felt like a war crime.

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        8 months ago

        Trust me, that is so much better than colonoscopy prep. Between what you have to drink, how much you have to drink, and the fact that every single drop of shit comes out of your body over the course of a 24 hour period is hellish.

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          8 months ago

          I just laugh that the bowel prep laxative brand we use at the hospital is called, “Golytely” - pronounced go-lightly lmao.

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    8 months ago

    I rather apply limitations on what I eat so I won’t need blood tests to know whether I am healthy or not :|

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        8 months ago

        So you mean that by not eating junk food in colossal quantities, instead taking seldom a morser\nibble, I am harming myself more?

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          8 months ago

          Ah yes, cancer, that thing that is only caused by food, and definitely not caused by genetic or environmental factors!

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            8 months ago

            It surely helps if one avoids chunking down junk food.

            Of course pollution doesn’t help.

            That is why it is better to live on the outskirts and go into the big city only for work and leisure.

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              8 months ago

              You sound like you’re espousing the same kind of woo as Steve Jobs did.

              “Oh, even though I have the super treatable form of pancreatic cancer and not the super deadly kind, I’m sure eating fruits and nuts and avoiding red meat is just as good as chemo and radiation therapy and OH NO MY APPLE HAS NOW FALLEN OFF THE TREE!”

              (Wait, are we even federated with the afterlife?)

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                8 months ago

                I don’t have tumors or cancers because I medically check myself once in a while, but I still avoid eating junk food or overly processed food except seldom to avoid increasing my own risk of contracting ailments or maladies.

                When there is party like a barbecue, I am very voracious on the meat because I eat it sparingly (but I eat the type of meat you purchase almost 0 KM away from your own trusted family-led butcher shop)

                It’s called common sense.