Wild Card/Monday — 9.15.14
I appreciate the fine job (per usual) that Cindy did while filling in for me on Thursday & Friday. I wasn't kicking back with my tootsies in Lake Coeur d'Alene. I was undergoing my every-five-years colonoscopy, prepping on Thursday and then heading for Kootenai Clinic for the procedure Friday morning. I'm not going to go into details here, other than to encourage all of you of a certain age to make sure you get this done, especially you men who shy away from medical exams. The prep work isn't fun. The procedure itself is a piece of cake. Bottom line? You can chuckle all you want about colonoscopies. But the possible alternative -- colon cancer -- isn't funny. Now for today's Wild Card ...