Something to Do For Your Own Good

True story…

My best friend in the whole world – let's call him Sam –  is a great guy, father of two, active in the community, a marathon runner, does complex work in support of interplanetary space missions, wicked sense of humor, loyal…well, ok you get the picture.

His mom died of colon cancer at a very young age.

Naturally this wasn't the first topic we ever discussed after we met but eventually it came up.  Now I knew that if you lose a close relative to colon cancer at an early age, it may v...