3 weeks ago had a 5cm cancer removed from sigmoid colon and now have stoma. I could deal with that fine but then had the phone cal to say that all 15 lymph nodes taken had cancer. I am so sad
comes as a really unwelcome just after you have adjusted your mind to a positive outcome of successful surgery. Now you have to deal with the whole raft of uncertainties that accompany this news. In a perverse sense it is better knowing this is the case than not, because from here on you will be more closely monitored to catch any further outspread earlier allowing for positive intervention.
Its a hard knock to take but for me it saved my life as my unwelcome guest decided to move home from my Bowel to my Liver..Ten years on l have that original bad news to thank for my survival, sometimes positives are not always readily apparent.
Go gently on yourself since stress can get between you and giving your body its best chance of recovery,
