Thanks for sharing, hugs and prayers for you and your family and have a nice wedding

Some GPs are quite numb when it comes to digging to find solutions. My dad’s GP also told him "the bleeding hemorrhoids" story… meanwhile dad had surgery of a humongous colon cancer that so far has spread to the lymph-nodes.

(for those getting confused: my father in law is the one that started this website about his metastatic liver cancer and has passed away for about 20 months now).

XOXOXO to Trish and all of you!

Thank you for the hugs and kisses.

My heart goes out to you Paul & children. When I thought I only had 6 months to go, I was okay with my fate, but I my biggest concern was my husband and my daughter, I knew that these 2 people would be the most affected by my demise, it was the thing that most made me cry. I hope you have heaps of support Paul, OXOXO.

My Mum’s partner (who she’s marrying this Saturday) entered my Mum’s life a little before I was diagnosed. He had lost his wife a couple of years beforehand to cancer.
From memory, she was being treated for cancer in her glands, and then it re-occured and had gone to her lungs, she was being treated for lung cancer (unsuccessfully), but it was only the secondary, her primary apparently was hard to diagnose, she had ovarian cancer. If the primary had been found first time round, it would have been treated, and if it had, I’m pretty sure he said that it wouldn’t have gone to the glands or lungs.

Sometimes when I don’t feel so great I get bitter, and it’s directed a 2 GP’s. About 2 years before I was diagnosed, I had blood intwined with my stool (excuse me), I had managed to retrieve a stool and I took it to the doctor, she gave me the obvious exam, scolded me for bringing in the stool, I remember her standing there with her hands on hips saying “What am I going to do with that?” you can imagine how embarrassed I was, she sent me off saying it was probably a hemmaroid, by then I was double embarrassed, I could feel something inside me at that stage about the size of a golf ball. About 20 months later I went on a holiday to Russia (from Australia) I’m sure that being in the air brings any sickness out to open, I was sick all the way, and was sick for 1 day whilst there and sick on the way home.( I never got sick). When I got back, I went and saw another GP, same clinic, had a CT Scan, all she could focus on was a swollen cyst, which had been there for 8 years, she wouldn’t focus on the other white blob, which was bigger??? This GP was as dumb as the first, she gave me a pap smear, asked me to raise my pelvis cause she couldn’t get the spectulem over the big lump….DUH…..Still didn’t register. Had it been found then, about 2 months before my final diagnosis, it would not have reached my liver. It was pretty aggresive until I started chemo.

Unfortunately I can’t warn people to get a second opinion, because by the time you reach this website, it’s too late, the last thing you expect your doctor to tell you is that you have cancer, so you don’t investigate this far yet. I was certain that I had a twist in the bowel or something.

I bought two wrist bands yesterday because they were for bowel and cancer research, I just tossed them in the car. My daughter picked one up and read what was written on it. It said
“embarrassment can kill” How true.

It would be good if we could avoid that sniper, how appropriate was that statement, well said.

I had a CT Scan last Friday, 9th Sept. hope all is well, I hope that they’ve shrunk even more.

Love to All,

Trish