Dear LPG,     

This is a very quick and mucky message, but it must be repeated on your pages. I read an ancient post, which it is necessary to ask LPG to dredge up again. It has to have been at least five years since I read it, but three weeks before that, I also received one of the letters from the NHS that so many of us read, put on a shelf, promised to do something about, and then forget.

When you get your ‘invitation’ to send a sample so that your poo can be examined, it often has a somewhat daunting effect on you, but the article reminded me to do the deed.  The extra LPG prompt reminded me that my letter was on the shelf and needed action and a promise to get back to it at some time very shortly, which seems to get forgotten.   I soon had it in the post and received the letter that informed me that all was well when it came to the state of my bowels.

The posted kit is usually preceded by a letter telling you the test is coming. I recently received my latest invitation to get involved. We often get the picture after reading the first paragraph and skip the rest of the letter, but when I read a bit further down, it offered one bit of information that can also easily be ignored but that is so important.  

Those letters stop coming once you reach the age of 74, even though we are still entitled to a biannual test, and I hope we have many more years in front of us, having gotten that far.  So, the bottom line is this…

We older people will need to put a note in our diaries and remind ourselves to ask for it to be done and phone for a test every two years after that.  

I ask that you click below and look at that earlier article for yourself…

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WR, Bellingham.

LPG offers some online information…

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