Well this is a bit ******

DXP55 said:
Now I know why my tests stopped coming - _ I am over 74.

Dod - best of luck for the future.
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So you get to 74...and suddenly you're not worth it anymore?

Figures, sometime in the future you'll get shipped off to the Carousel for Soylent Green processing.
 
Wishing you a speedy recovery. Day 2 post op always seems to be a downer for various reasons. Well done for acting on the screening.
 
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Speedy recovery op...

I had my first poop test through this year...all clear....i did have some polyps removed several months ago during a colonoscopy. I am 60.

Waiting for an Endoscopy (8 months and counting) as tummy not good...

As you get older these things happen! Peeing is on and off etc. Urine test came back all ok though...
 
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I had one come through the door during my kidney cancer treatment, not the best timing broke down and cried when it came back clear. But now have colitis due to the treatment. All you can do is laugh!
 
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My dad died of bowel cancer at 72 which is weird because he was a 40-a-day smoker which would have normally meant lung cancer instead. He was skinny as a rake.

My nan cheated as she was also 40-a-day but made it to 92. Same side of the family as Dad, as she was Dad's mum.

That's a harrowing story from you @dod and it's damn unlucky if you're in the top 1% for health. With me being very overweight, it should be me getting bowel cancer, not you.
 
Best luck with the recovery, by the sounds of it the docs did pretty well and they didn't hang around and neither did you.
 
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Quick update for anyone who might be interested.

Today was my first day of chemo, I was bricking it before I went in. The reality wasn’t nearly as bad as I imagined. The process took about four hours in total.

There are eight cycles in total. Each cycle lasts three weeks, two with treatment and a rest week. The first four cycles are an infusion on day 1 followed by tablets for fourteen. The last four are tablet only.

Got steroids and anti sickness tablets to take for the next few days along with the treatment and just need to wait and see if there are any other side effects.

I’ve got fairly strong pins and needles in the arm they used to do the infusion, apparently this is common. It’s a bit uncomfortable but if that’s the worst I’ll cope fine with it :)

NHS again has been exceptional. Staff are amazing but you can see they’re working despite the environment. Some bits of the building are crumbling, one of the treatment rooms was leaking. It changes your perspective on what we should be spending our tax money on. It’s a service (NHS, not cancer specifically) we’ll all need at some time
 
<Dubz> said:
Glad to hear your doing well, Have you got much hair to loose or won't it come to that?
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I’m learning loads of stuff, the process is absolutely fascinating and I think the nurses are starting to think I need to shut up :cry:

All chemo is not the same apparently. What I’m getting is not likely to cause full hair loss, there might be some thinning but even that’s unusual. Probably just as well as I broke my head a few years ago and there’s lumps and dents from the bone grafts they did :rolleyes:
 
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