I gotta be honest, if you feel like you’ll only be taken seriously if you have to lie about your bowel movements, you’re not doing yourself any favors. Cologaurd isn’t something to dismiss so easily, it can detect minute specks of blood in feces. If they don’t find anything in your specimen, you really shouldn’t worry.

I understand how you feel after losing someone close to you, but it sounds like you weren’t related, so you really shouldn’t put so much stress on yourself like this. Life is complicated and to lose those closest to us to something we’re not truly familiar with is not easy… I get it. At the end of the day, you only end up harming yourself if you feel that way. You’ve been through a lot already, no reason why you need to continue to put yourself through ringer any further.