My dad was diagnosed with colorectal cancer at the beginning of December after a colonoscopy showed a 5cm tumour 12cm into the colon. He had been having symptoms of something for over a year but hadn't been to the dr's until around October just gone. The CT just before Christmas showed that the cancer had breached the bowel wall, although I don't understand much about this, but that it hasn't spread to the rest of the colon. We were given an idea of the treatment he would receive very roughly as being chemo, radio and then surgery. However after his MRI we were told that although no mets were showing anywhere they get wanted him in for surgery in ten days time which is next week. This has come as a complete shock as it seems like the big stuff has come round all too quickly. We are all heartbroken, my dad is only in his early fifties and he is petrified. Life is never perfect but it feels as if something has come along and burst out bubble. I've always known people affected by cancer but never thought it would touch my family and now it has it just feels like we're living a nightmare. It's the first thing we all think about in the morning, the last thing at night and wake up having dreamt about it. I wish I could do something to help but I know there's nothing all I can do is hope. Has anyone been in a similar situation with this cancer? I would love to hear some positive stories as I would like to relay them back to my lovely dad just so that he knows there is some hope because as you can imagine he is thinking the worst.
