PSA: It’s Time for Your Colonoscopy
5 min readNov 19, 2019
How to prepare for your worst nightmare
“I refuse to do it, and they can’t make me!” insisted my mother, describing a procedure I could not believe existed.
“They stick what? Where? While you’re awake? Wuuuut!”
She was too mad to explain herself, but I assumed I understood her. To her a colonoscopy was not a standard medical procedure that catches an…