This is the big topic of discussion lately... I guess it's the next big trend or something.

"If you haven't suffered through the most embarrassing medical condition on Earth, odds are you will. Up to 75 percent of us will get it, according to the Mayo Clinic. Half of all people over 50 will seek treatment for it. And none of us want to know the first thing about it.

"The first rule of real estate -- location -- explains the eye-widening, mouth-puckering shame associated with hemorrhoids. Everyone has hemorrhoids. Three to be exact. When they act up they become a mass of swollen veins in the lining of the anus and rectum. There are internal and external hemorrhoids. You don't want to know much more than that."

Of course you want to know more.