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By Jan Chait It's the last thing you want to hear as you're in recovery, snuggled under a warm blanket as you yawn and drift in and out of sleep following a colonoscopy. "I found one polyp, but could only get to about 90% of your colon," the doctor said as he walked into the room. "I'm going to need you to come back for another colonoscopy. Would you mind?" Mind? Me? Nah. I mean, another day of clear liquids only. More gulps of nasty-tasting prep solution that has you staying near the bathroom. No problem. Ha! But (pardon the pun), for me it's necessary. I can thank my father for that. He had a condition that caused him to grow lots of polyps in his colon and, in fact, had about half of his colon surgically removed because of it. It can be inherited, so apparently I get to have an annual colonoscopy. So far, so good and let's keep it that way. Colon cancer doesn't sound like anything I want. This, by the way, is something I just found out about recently. While we're all from West Virginia, most of my immediate family has lived in South Carolina for decades. I live in Indiana and one brother — a nuclear engineer turned consultant — lives all over the place. I'm not physically close enough to any of them to hear a lot of the family gossip. My baby brother, who took care of Dad, just kind of dropped that little tidbit in my ear — and now I can't get hold of him for the details. Baby Bro, that is. Dad is no longer with us. It reminded me that, in addition to...
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