alright..so my friend is 17, female. Last week she told her parents that blood was coming from her a**s...her mother told her that it was her period and she should worry about it. The next day she calls me and asks me what I think it may be, since I used trk as a medical assistant(volunteer work, I ask her if it is coming from her a**s and not her vaginal line. She says yes, and tells me its been happening for 2 weeks now and that it only happens after she defecates.

I call her parents and we chat. I tell t hem it is not her period that is causing the bleeding and that they should take her to the doctor. THEY LAUGH AT ME and tell me that I wouldnt know anything about that, even though they work as frycooks with no medical knowledge.

a month passes and her parents dont find it odd that her so called "period" has lasted this long and she gets very unhealthy looking..she vomits frequently so her parents take her to the doctor...guess what? turns out she has colon cancer.

The doctors say she needs to start emergency kemo, and theres a big chance she will not live, however they said if it had been discovered earlier on...say 3 weeks earlier they could have caught it before it got bad.

If she had been a man this wouldnt have happened and I just know it.

Im very, very pissed off.