I am writing this while sitting in a hospital bed on a Sunday morning with faecal incontinence, feeling like the luckiest person in the world.

Won the Lotto I have, figuratively. 

Six months ago, I did the National Bowel Cancer Screening FOB test. And to my great surprise I had a double positive result. 

The form had a box to tick asking if I had had a colonoscopy in the past 18 months, which I had, so I ticked the box saying no colonoscopy was required and sent it back