Colonoscopy

Tomorrow I have to do my colonoscopy! Yuck! I have to get one every other year! The worse part is not eating for 24 hours, that is like a life time to me. But I will do it, not for myself but for my daughter and husband.

I lost my Mom to colon cancer when she was 52 and I was 25. I do not want to do that to my family so I will do what I have to do to make sure that will never happen.

Ever since having my daughter I get more nervous about having colonoscopy's done. Before the only thing I worried about was whether or not my UC was under control, now I worry about if the doctor is going to find the dreaded "C" word. I don't want to put my daughter or my husband through what my family went through with my Mom. Since my Mom never went to the doctor's I don't know when her cancer started. It was diagnosed too late when she was 50. I am 33 now. My Mom and Great Uncle were both diagnosed with colon cancer when they were young, but my Grandfather wasn't diagnosed until when he was in his 80's. So what's that mean for me? I guess only time will tell and doing the preventative measures that I'm doing is what counts!

Do me a favor have something to eat for me today! Thanks!