09-03-2021, 12:40 AM
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I have received this package, it's in my bedside drawer unopened. I thought it was ugh, and didn't want my wife to know I recieved it.I do feel bad about the waste of money but I didn't request it. I was 60 last year so possibly the reason I got it ..
09-03-2021, 05:17 PM
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Originally Posted by Woodsman59
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I have received this package, it's in my bedside drawer unopened. I thought it was ugh, and didn't want my wife to know I recieved it.I do feel bad about the waste of money but I didn't request it. I was 60 last year so possibly the reason I got it ..
10-03-2021, 12:01 AM
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Originally Posted by Woodsman59
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I have received this package, it's in my bedside drawer unopened. I thought it was ugh, and didn't want my wife to know I recieved it.I do feel bad about the waste of money but I didn't request it. I was 60 last year so possibly the reason I got it ..
Why on earth wouldn't you want your wife to know, Woodsman?
Were you afraid she would insist on your doing the test?
I think we are very lucky to be given the opportunity to have these free tests.
Sorry, but I think you are very wrong to refuse to do it.
These new ones are quick, simple, and very worthwhile, so get on with it man!
10-03-2021, 05:30 PM
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Sorry , I didn't see this , I don't get notifications plus my log in seems to be very erratic. ( no log jokes ) : o : )I didn't want my lovely wife nagging me and she did in the end when this very subject came up with a mutual acquaintance.
I believe the tests are "timed" so that's that plus I got a gp letter telling me they know I refused.
I binned that too , I only joined the gp after 20 years living here because of my jab ; so yes , cowardly but I don't want to know .
10-03-2021, 05:33 PM
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Arrrrgh , Summer : o : ) : )Poo sticks..
I read , some lady had blood and underwent a horrible experience , bits of her inside removed and it was all ok.
She may have had blood because of painkillers , well, I take these for a bad back after chainsawing wood.
Its easily found on the net , she had what I would consider an horrible experience..for nothing .
11-03-2021, 04:20 PM
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Originally Posted by Mups
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I have just been informed the usual bowel cancer screening tests are on their way by post.I was quite surprised, what with the NHS's backlog with other work.
A bit unpleasant, but a worthwhile test I think.
Do you think it's worth participating?
11-03-2021, 04:40 PM
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A word of warning when using the kit. Don’t do as I did, and hold the bottle over the sink when the poo stick is in the other. I realised too late the liquid inside was trickling out!A phone call a morning or so later and a replacement kit was received within days. This time, I put the bottle, upright, into a small glass on the bathroom sink.
Just waiting for the result now.
I have a niece by marriage who still has her stoma because Covid prevented a reversal op. And someone from the allotment went through the same surgery, but his was eventually reversed.
A councillor at my old home town is now having chemo following breast cancer surgery.
My brother has had prostate cancer.
So I will do whatever tests are thrown at me, whether they are undignified, awkward, fiddly, time consuming. Whatever.
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