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Mundane facts about your day: Part Deux.
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Thehooperman
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I received a letter yesterday telling me the testing kit that I received 6 weeks ago was a bowel cancer screening kit.Also amongst the pile was a letter dated 12th October ......letting me know I'm getting the Winter Fuel Payment. Just a good job the actual payment isn't posted out by cheque ! Might have arrived after the winter at the rate our post is arriving.
As the kit had no description on it and there was no reference to either my NI or NHS number I was a bit suspect and binned it.
Wouldn't you expect they'd send the letter first!!!!
Thehooperman
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That's spooky
Just little old me:)
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I can understand being suspicious... I mean who sends a kit wanting a sample of your poo there's some strange folk out there
littleme
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I thought you'd got to be 70+ to have that sent out? Don't tell me this is something else I've got to look forward to now I'm in my 50's?
Gramaisc
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65, then every two years - although there was a three-year Covid-induced gap.
Edit - actually, it must be 60...
The current iteration of the test is much less 'entertaining' than the previous one was.
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Just little old me:)
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The joys of getting old
necessary evils
Thehooperman
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Don't know the age conditions but I turned 60 in September.
As I attend my GP and diabetes specialist quite regularly I would have thought they'd have mentioned the test kit being sent out.
Thehooperman
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Gramaisc
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I can't remember the exact circumstances, but my first one arrived in a manner that didn't make me suspicious that it might be some bizarre form of identity theft.
I certainly had no form of communication from the GP about it, though.
It's the aorta scan that is triggered at 65, now that I think about it - again, I had no prior warning, other than a bloke a week older than me telling me that he'd had a letter.
They did send me a 'spare' test, when I failed to achieve the first one in a timely manner, due to not being here before it had expired - not that I could tell that, so I had returned the kit after it had expired, and so had to go through it again.
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littleme
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Well I never, I had you down as younger than me! I've already had the dreaded colonoscopy (horrific, didn't work , had to have a scan instead) after bowel cancer in the family from one of those tests sent out... and I'm dreading the 4 yearly recall (that hasn't happened yet, probably due to covid).
BobClay
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Off to the library for half a day to research books and microfiche
I've got a full set of Encyclopaedia Brittanica I bought in the 80's for OU work. I've got all the year books from then up until 2017 when they stopped producing them. Problem is science and technology has leapt ahead since those days, however, they still look good on the shelf.
Problem with the Internet is: Sturgeon's Law.
Just little old me:)
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Maybe a bit less than 90%I've got a full set of Encyclopaedia Brittanica I bought in the 80's for OU work. I've got all the year books from then up until 2017 when they stopped producing them. Problem is science and technology has leapt ahead since those days, however, they still look good on the shelf.
Problem with the Internet is: Sturgeon's Law.
staffordjas
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I've been sent several , can't remember if it at 60 or before.
First ones you had to take 3 seperate samples at different times and smear onto a piece of card which then got put into a cardboard envelope and posted back.
At least nowadays it's just the one sample and straight into a container and posted off and not got the bit of card hanging around the bathroom until all the windows are filled with smeared samples.
Gramaisc
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Not for first-timers -I've been sent several , can't remember if it at 60 or before.
First ones you had to take 3 seperate samples at different times and smear onto a piece of card which then got put into a cardboard envelope and posted back.
At least nowadays it's just the one sample and straight into a container and posted off and not got the bit of card hanging around the bathroom until all the windows are filled with smeared samples.
Do not smear it on your windows.
Noah
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They've been steadily extending the age range of people it is sent to. Don't think I've had one since pre-covid though.
Gramaisc
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I had one last year, after a year off from the previous two-year cycle.
littleme
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I think my dad's, when he was found to have bowel cancer, was sent out at 70yrs, a good 10 years ago...he was treated and is in remission....but that's why I thought it was still 70+I've been sent several , can't remember if it at 60 or before.
First ones you had to take 3 seperate samples at different times and smear onto a piece of card which then got put into a cardboard envelope and posted back.
At least nowadays it's just the one sample and straight into a container and posted off and not got the bit of card hanging around the bathroom until all the windows are filled with smeared samples.
Shittjng hell, time flies, I can't believe it wasso long ago...
littleme
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Can I smear it on the neighbours windows?
littleme
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Yes, dad's was 10 years ago at least