colonoscopy
A colonoscopy is a polite ceremony in which a professional machine gazes upon humanity’s deepest secrets and exposes your unguarded body on a screen. The technician, piloting the camera, tours the inside of your colon and returns with thrilling souvenirs in the form of tissue samples. Though usually harmless, the experience may gift you memories of pain and humiliation. Performed under the guise of prevention, it is in truth a voyage to the body asylum that everyone dreads. It shows you what you never wanted to see and inscribes stories you never wished to tell—a true test of medical endurance.