This is my final plea I promise. I will make it short and sweet.
I lost my mom to Colon Cancer 3 years ago. She was dx'd too late. She fought long and hard, endured two extensive surgeries, was the longest patient involved in the clinical trial for Oxiplatin but unfortnately she did not beat the beast.
I made a promise to her that I would never allow the beast to get me and had my first colnoscopy at 30 ( clean thank goodness ) and my second at 33 ( clean again thank goodness ) ... It wasn't easy finding a Dr who would do it for me... who would hear me.
We need a lot of changes, the AMA needs to stop reading the old data regarding CC and CRC and recognize 50 is too late for a whole lot of people to start screening. The time is now, when you are young enough to fight it or catch it before it starts. Too many people of dying of embarrassment because we don't talk about. I want to talk about it.
I am the cohost of a very successful internet radio talk show that raches thousands of people. I want to dedicate all 3 hours of Thursday, March 15 to CC and CRC awareness. This is my birthday as well as the 3rd anniversary of the day I buried my beautiful and brave mother. PLease join me... any and all of you... please call in... we are live form 2-5 pm EST... we run the shows in re run for the other 21 hours of the day and we download them to ipodnetworks to reach even more people.... please call in and keep calling if the lines are busy... this is our change to reach the world 1 888 257 7468 1 888 2 jr show.
Erica