At the behest of my wife, who mentioned that my bowel habits had changed recently (for the better in my opinion!) I bought a DIY fecal occult blood test kit. It detects hidden ("occult") blood in excrement, which is an indicator of several nasty conditions; particularly colorectal cancer.
(If I lived in Scotland I'd have been sent something similar by the NHS on my fiftieth birthday. We English have to wait until we are 60. Are we really more robust? Or just poorer...)
Although I was confident that I had no bowel problem, I must admit to discovering that I'd been holding my breath until the test kit confirmed the fact.
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