Bowel cancer test

As did Samual Pepys the diarist.

I've now got some plastic food trays to use for collecting......so tomorrow looks being the first sampling day........Gulp...

But  he  invited  his  friends  round  to  watch  !!

Write your comments here...He went down with Alice.   

Every test possible is a good thing, however, my late husband was only 51 and didn't qualify for any tests, nor did he poo blood or anything. Not even a pound of weight was shed!

Our 21st Wedding anniversary started with him throwing up, by 7 Pm I rang an ambulance to come, he was passing out, couldn't stand and hadn't eaten or drank anything all day.

He was rushed into hospital, next day went down for scans, samples taken from everywhere. He was on a drip to put in fluids as the sickness continued.  A week later he had biopsies taken from just under his rib age, these showed nothing, but the intensive blood tests taken the week before showed spindle cancerous cells, this is when more MRi and Cat scans were ordered.  They did not know what they would find, but prepared him to except a stoma when he woke up.

The operation was undertaken and within minutes of him having the op I was called in by the consultant.  It was when the nurse entered the room with a box of tissues I knew things were not good!  They had cut him open from the rib cage down to his pelvis and from side to side.  They found a cancer growth the size of large grapefruit on his appendix and his organs were covered in what they called cotton wool cancer.

This was at the beginning of August now, he was bed ridden in the hospital and eating half a sandwich a day max. He went into hospital weighing 21 stone. He left the hospital on the 9th September and taken to the Prospect Hospice.

He was refused Chemo, the cancer was not removed, so it just ate him alive over the next few months.  The scars never healed, he lost weight and from 24th July to the 6th Novenber I watched him loose 12+ stone. He weighed no more than 8 1/2 stone when he died suddenly of a blood clot passing through his heart resulting in a heart attack.

So, PLEASE do have any tests available, please do not think it could never happen to you! If cancer is caught early, they can do wonders, but uncaught is not good, please do not ignore any signs you feel isn't normal.

he died two months before his 52 nd birthday!

Thank  you  for  the  graphic  description,  Vivien !  Too  many  men  refuse  to  take  the  generally  given advice  -->  if  you  see / feel  anything  strange  ,  unusual  or  different  GO  &  MITHER  YOUR  DOCTOR !!
I took  being  diagnosed  as  "Diabetic"  as  a  personal  insult  for  some  time  until  I  saw  some  sense.  Then  the  moment  I  had  bowel  problems,  I  reckon  the  doctor  could  hear  me  without  use  of  the  'phone.  Caught  the  problems  very  early,  but  it  still  took  six  and  a  half  years  of  surgery,  colonoscopies,  more  surgery,  and  flexi-sigs  by  the  dozen  before  they  took  my  name  tags  off  the  theatre  gown !

Was  it  all  worth  it  ??  of  course  it  was -- just  to  be  here  annoying  you  lot  is  worth  every "Endoscopy  Suite  No  6  please  ! "

Its not just bowel cancer people ignore! Breast cancer is equally rife in women as well as MEN! Yes! Men can get breast cancer!  As well as many other cancers, all should not be ignored!

Our lives are precious, we do not come back after we have left the departure lounge, so why do many have tests and check ups appointed and not take them up??  isnt there enough requests from cancer research Make people realise Cancer is a live thing in us all await time bomb waiting for the right trigger!

i used to bleed quite heavily and was told it was because if fmy age and the menipause will sort the problem out! I persisted until a doctor took note, sent me to a specialist and they found i had CN2 pre cancer cells on my cervic. A short and quick operation sorted the problem out and a month later and all the bleeding had stopped! So Much for waiting for the menopause!

Thanks for sharing those painful, personal experiences Vivien.....a lesson to anyone to get on and get checked.

Did my first sampling this morning......gross! ........but worth it in the longer term

Vivien, what a sad story ,my heart goes out to you. The way you get on with your life after such an horrendous loss takes a special kind of person. You are to be admired!.

Vivien, what a sad story ,my heart goes out to you. The way you get on with your life after such an horrendous loss takes a special kind of person. You are to be admired!.

Write your comments here... You would be surprised how many Solos there are here in the CC.  Both men and ladies that have lost thier loved one early!   Its hard to explain, but widowed people are different from divorced.   I can say that as i have been both divorced and widowed. Widows see life completely differently, we have no hatred due to divorce but instead carry out loved ones close in out heats!

so far i have had well over 450 people contact me and become a Solo who caravans, motorhomes or camps alone! I have no idea how many have read the instruction, printed the Solos sign and have met with other Solos away from this site.

So, is this an annual ritual? 

Must agree with those above, lost my mum to this 'disease' but just today had the all clear from my tests though!