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You enjoy yourself AND you miss them! You embrace the dialectic and hold the two together with an “AND” not a “but” (e.g., I should be enjoying my time away, but I miss my kids a lot.)

I know you are making recommendations based on the data, and for that reason your recommendations are sound. I know that there are false positives in tests, and those can cause intense pain. But, for someone who lost a close friend, mother of two little boys, who was in perfect health otherwise to colorectal cancer this past year, I cannot encourage parents enough to just get screened. My dear friend didn’t have a family history. She didn’t have any symptoms until it was stage 4 and spread widely. Colonoscopies are EASY! Poop tests are EASY! Colorectal Cancer is a death sentence. It is worth the cost, and time, and energy for the peace of mind and to be there for your children.