Colon Cancer Screening.

Burgenland is leaps ahead of others...

As you know, our village is tiny with about 300 inhabitants. Fabulous in so many ways, and now it has moved up another notch in my fabulous chart !

Every couple of weeks we get a missive from the mayor in our post. In today's era of having everything delivered online, it is refreshing and fun to get a mayoral update in the post. Great to see the pictures, happenings and who turned what ( Birthday's over a certain age are put in there...oh yes, our turn will come too. )

Health is taken very seriously here. The last newsletter announced the annual free Colon Cancer pre-screening in Burgenland for every villager over the age of 40. Oh drat, that includes Bob and I ! Wow, I have never really lived in a country, city or village where so much is done for one free of charge.

As it normally happens, you read about something and want to do it, but then forget it and suddenly remember and wonder how to go about it. That dithering has even been take care of by the district. The other day we were working in the garden and there was a shout of " Grüss Gott " at the gate.

A lady was walking door to door and hand delivering the Colon Cancer Pre-Screening kits. Unbelievable and great. When I later told Bob and showed him, we noticed that we each had already our name and address printed on the label of the vial.

Maybe a few countries / towns or villages around the world should take notice and do this too. Our Burgenland ( see all their different programs for Health prevention ) is very progressive in a lot of ways. They know, that early detection is cheaper to deal with than later detection and saves many lives in the process...I love Burgenland.

Biggi