CHICAGO CARLESS

(Photo: The things your doctor doesn’t warn you about….)

There are many words that your doctor can probably go ahead and edit out of an oral report on your CT scan results. “Most likely benign” are not among them. Given the rigamarole and drang I went through that led up to the words being written, I felt I had earned hearing them.

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(Photo: Intestinal health is nothing to sniff it.)

They say that with age comes wisdom. As a somewhat newly minted 38-year-old, I’d rather that someone had warned me about the constipation. It’s an open secret rarely considered by the young and guarded with glee by the over-40 set as they watch their age-advancing junior compatriots suffer through this startling realization: eventually, you’re only as young as your body lets you feel.

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