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My Dad died from Colon cancer, so I've had 3 since I turned 50. As stated above, no big deal.

EXCEPT......

My last one a year ago. I'm laying there ready to go. The IV is stuck in my wrist. The doc comes up with the happy juice and injects it in the IV. Immediately I feel intense burning in my right arm. I start yelling. I start cussing. I'm yelling cuss words I've never even heard of before. Truly the worst pain I've ever felt in my life. The doc and nurses are just standing there looking at me. FINALLY one nurse realizes what's going on. They had the blood pressure cuff pumped up. So what was injected in my IV was going into a CLOSED vein. A vein can only expand a little bit before it EXPLODES. If it had exploded I would have been in big trouble. The nurse grabbed the cuff and ripped it off my arm and the juice surged into my system.
Then.....A week went by and no call on the results. I call and I get, the nurse is with a patient and will call you back. Never happened. I call again and leave a message. Still no call back. I decide no news must be good news. Six months later I'm at my regular doc and I tell him I never got my results from six months ago. He calls and they tell him everything was OK, and I don't have to come back for 10 years. That sounds fine but also stupid. With strong family history of CC, Dad and Grandmother, why would I go 10 years without having one?
Needless to say, I'm finding another doc.