Ever since anchorwoman Katie Couric received a colonoscopy on the Today show, my mother has been pressuring me to have one, too. We’ll be deep in conversation about sofa tables, and she’ll say, “If you measure correctly, mistakes can be avoided. . . . Colon cancer can be avoided, too.”
Last week, our conversation reached an all-time low when she told me that colorectal cancer is a terrible way to die. Thinking that a colonoscopy couldn’t possibly be worse than hearing her say “colorectal cancer” a hundred times more, I hung up the phone, called the doctor’s office, and made an appointment.
