I arrived home not too long ago and checked the mailbox, as one does, on the way in. Therein I found an A4 envelope containing a box with my name display the window.
Normally I would be curious in a good and expectantly hopeful way on receiving such packages but this one was sent by the Australian Government.
I was was still curious but closing in on becoming toey.
I opened the envelope, with more than a little trepidation, to find a 24" × 6.5" × 1" box, a 26 page-high gloss, four colour-pamphlet of the same length and width and a 4 page A4 aknowledgement form for me to return apon completion.
My first impression of the contents was S***, that was reasonably quick" (as I had only celebrated my 50th 44 days previous.
What have I received that would bring both mirth and anxiety? An FOBT pack.
You may well ask "What's an FOBT pack?"
Well, it's a test kit, sent by the Australian Government, on behalf of the National Bowel Cancer Screening Program Advisory Group, to Australians and Permanent Australian Residents (such as myself) to possibly determine or confirm elevated reports of bowel cancer in Australia due to some suspect catalyst(s).
What does the acronym FOBT stand for?
'Faecal Occult Blood Test;' hence the mirth.
I imagined government employees offering poop on a brazier-before an alter-and scrying, by the smoke and stench, what type of ailment the defecator may have, or possibly develop.
What has made you consider your age of late?
Normally I would be curious in a good and expectantly hopeful way on receiving such packages but this one was sent by the Australian Government.
I was was still curious but closing in on becoming toey.
I opened the envelope, with more than a little trepidation, to find a 24" × 6.5" × 1" box, a 26 page-high gloss, four colour-pamphlet of the same length and width and a 4 page A4 aknowledgement form for me to return apon completion.
My first impression of the contents was S***, that was reasonably quick" (as I had only celebrated my 50th 44 days previous.
What have I received that would bring both mirth and anxiety? An FOBT pack.
You may well ask "What's an FOBT pack?"
Well, it's a test kit, sent by the Australian Government, on behalf of the National Bowel Cancer Screening Program Advisory Group, to Australians and Permanent Australian Residents (such as myself) to possibly determine or confirm elevated reports of bowel cancer in Australia due to some suspect catalyst(s).
What does the acronym FOBT stand for?
'Faecal Occult Blood Test;' hence the mirth.
I imagined government employees offering poop on a brazier-before an alter-and scrying, by the smoke and stench, what type of ailment the defecator may have, or possibly develop.
What has made you consider your age of late?