Lui Passaglia - Push for the Tush - Kick Cancer

[Toppy Vann]

The BC Lions and Lui are teaming up on this campaign to kick cancer. I can't think of a better ambassador than Big Lu as he is known to his close friends from SFU days.

Lui gets emotional in the video featuring he and Dennis Skulsky.

http://www.theprovince.com/sports/Ullri ... story.html

I would hope that D and Lionbackers would support this cause as this is how to prevent cancer and men need to do things to protect themselves.

A good friend and our financial planner -who I knew from 8 or 9 years as his dad was my soccer coach found out at 55 he had liver cancer but it wasn't discovered until too late. 3 years later he was gone.

When I asked him how can I help he said "Get a colonoscopy" so I went to my doctor and asked for a referral. He said I've have to pay $180 for it and off I went. The specialist was looking at the blood tests that I had passed just fine and said he had "good news and bad news". Good news the colonoscopy was free. Bad news a problem (not cancer) that he would check out. More blood tests later and both a colonoscopy and gastroscopy I was diagnosed with celiac disease.

When I later asked how come my doctor said I was fine he said for a general practitioner he was right. BUT he sees similar things all the time and a few things trigger his suspicions.

Many males make jokes or fear the colonoscopy but it was nothing.

Secondly I am not sure they use this procedure these days for everything but PREVENTION is worth it especially as we get older.

[mws]

Thanks Toppy and as you say there is nothing to fear.
The drugs they gave me were so good they could have parked a Landrover up my a$$ and I wouldn't have cared less.
Get it done fellas. It's worth the peace of mind.

[sj-roc]

Colonoscopy is no big deal. You can elect full anaesthetic and sleep right through it. That's how I did it when I was on the road to my celiac DX a couple years ago.

It's the prep for it that's the real killer. Fast for up to 36hrs starting two nights before, then you have to, ahem, cleanse with two glasses of milky, fruit-flavoured (and very effective) laxative beverage. Forget about accomplishing anything else the entire day; you have to stay home near the bathroom the whole day for it. And stay off social media, where all you'll see is Pictures Of Other People's Food. Between the fast and the cleanse, I shed about eight pounds when I went through it.

[Toppy Vann]

Colonoscopy is no big deal. You can elect full anaesthetic and sleep right through it. That's how I did it when I was on the road to my celiac DX a couple years ago.

It's the prep for it that's the real killer. Fast for up to 36hrs starting two nights before, then you have to, ahem, cleanse with two glasses of milky, fruit-flavoured (and very effective) laxative beverage. Forget about accomplishing anything else the entire day; you have to stay home near the bathroom the whole day for it. And stay off social media, where all you'll see is Pictures Of Other People's Food. Between the fast and the cleanse, I shed about eight pounds when I went through it.

Great story.

My experience was less exciting with the laxative but yours sounds like my wife's day and night!