The patient is a very pleasant 68-year-old male with history of bilateral hernia repair, who presents with 3 weeks of diarrhea and 1 week of rectal bleeding.  He states that he had some stomach discomfort in the last 4 weeks.  He has had some physical therapy for his lower back secondary to pain after hernia repair.  He states that the pain worsened after this.  He has had previous history of rectal bleeding and a colonoscopy approximately 8 years ago that was normal.  He denies any dysuria.  He denies any hematemesis.  He denies any pleuritic chest pain.  He denies any hemoptysis.