So today my children's Granddad and my wife's step dad died today of Bowl Cancer.
He first noticed symptoms about a year and a half ago of constantly going to the toilet, loose and pale poo and abdominal pains. But he ignored them and carried on living life.
January this year symptoms progressed and he was in quite a bit of lower back pain. After countless visits to the GP and hospital he was given some anti inflammatories and told to rest.
April came around and things had only got worse, he was throwing up 3-5 times a day, unable to control his bowls, barely eating and in a lot of untreatable pain. The hospital admitted him and monitored him while doing tests.
2 weeks ago the tests came back that he had stage 3 aggressive cancer in the trunk (From the hips to your neck), it was in his bones, lymph nodes, organs etc. There was nothing they could do and he had 6 months at most to live.
3 days ago his kidneys packed in and he went into renal failure and they gave him 4 days at most. The cancer was restricting the oxygen to his brain, so he started to loose his sight, forget who people were and became randomly aggressive.
4am this morning he died.
I know I'm not exactly well liked on here and that needs to be put aside for the moment, but what is abundantly clear is please get your self checked if you are concerned about anything. Don't wait or be too embarrassed, its better to be safe then sorry.
He first noticed symptoms about a year and a half ago of constantly going to the toilet, loose and pale poo and abdominal pains. But he ignored them and carried on living life.
January this year symptoms progressed and he was in quite a bit of lower back pain. After countless visits to the GP and hospital he was given some anti inflammatories and told to rest.
April came around and things had only got worse, he was throwing up 3-5 times a day, unable to control his bowls, barely eating and in a lot of untreatable pain. The hospital admitted him and monitored him while doing tests.
2 weeks ago the tests came back that he had stage 3 aggressive cancer in the trunk (From the hips to your neck), it was in his bones, lymph nodes, organs etc. There was nothing they could do and he had 6 months at most to live.
3 days ago his kidneys packed in and he went into renal failure and they gave him 4 days at most. The cancer was restricting the oxygen to his brain, so he started to loose his sight, forget who people were and became randomly aggressive.
4am this morning he died.
I know I'm not exactly well liked on here and that needs to be put aside for the moment, but what is abundantly clear is please get your self checked if you are concerned about anything. Don't wait or be too embarrassed, its better to be safe then sorry.
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