My bad Jenn, I wasn't trying to make light of your situation, I was trying to be funny with a made up disease ( Cupcake Colon ) much like one we heard not too long ago, Cottage Cheese Lung. In the case of the latter, I'm pretty sure they meant Popcorn Lung which of course, hasn't been found to be an issue for vapers despite attempts to promote it as a potential risk.
In any event, I hope none of those factors ever come into play for you and you wind up proving your family wrong by living a long and happy life.
I knew the term Cupcake Colon only due to me getting sick last year. It's something they do for awareness. Don't apologize because I found it funny! It's true that I vape many desserts with the bad ingredients in them but hey, gotta have a risk here or there!
I traded one in for the other! It's pretty amazing how you can be fine one day and thinking what could happen in the future vs being told "We must open you up
only after we can get you stabilized enough to survive this surgery." That makes for a yucky Saturday night! Then wake up a week later not knowing you "slept" that long.
The government only want to scare everyone about Popcorn Lung and things of that nature as in heart conditions, etc etc etc, but they don't warn you about is the very foods we ingest. For me, it was a total fluke issue with no underlying conditions related to anything but my stomach taking a vacation from me. All I heard was how bad smoking was before, first time vaping and now I catch H@ll from smokers about the bad effects of vaping is. NO, it's our foods more than anything. Smog too, but our vaping is more of a nuisance, really?
Again, no harm done! I advocate for what I survived! Get checked after two days of the 24 hour bug, mine went for a few weeks and I about checked out of here...
Smile, I joke about it to no end! Cancer scare is real for me, but so is walking out in front of a car while at the grocery store! I just lessened it with dropping the analogs!