In Reply to: Thanks Jetstar and Wharfie posted by joy56c on Thursday, 4. February 2010 at 06:38 Bali Time:
you are so right about bowel cancer screening. With no symptoms whatsoever a friend of ours was encouraged by his doctor to take one of those home tests and he did, albeit a bit reluctantly. He got a positive reading for presence of blood and was into hospital about a month later with fear in his heart.
He turned out to have two large growths (precancerous) in his bowel which, they estimate, would have been cancerous within a year but still with probably no symptoms. By the time he got symptoms the story would have been far more traumatic.
He was back home two weeks later with a clean bill of health. I was waiting with my finger hovering above "enter" to book his first trip to Bali with us in June and he has that and so much more for which to be thankful.
Thank you for raising the subject Joy and in these two cases it is definitely Bali related!!!