I already have cancer, it's called Primary Peritoneal Cancer, and although I am terminal, I have been well for a while now, I have had no treatment for a year now and everything is stable and even the tumour markers have come down, however I have been having issue going to the loo since my diagnosis, this was partly to the biopsy that I had done to identify the type of cancer I have and also the surgery I had to remove it, but in recent months I noted some severe changes, such as extreme pain in my rectum before I went to the loo, also the pain would persist until I had moved my bowels sufficiently which was really difficult at times, then I started to notice a thick brown mucus in my stool and when I wiped myself after being to the loo. I mentioned it to my GP who just gave me more laxative.
On one occasion I was in so much pain I called 111 and they said that I needed to go to A&E immediately as it could be a bowel obstruction, I wont go into all the detail, but I wasn't examined and was sent home with a bottle of fluid to give myself an enema, which I couldn't do as I couldn't reach, however I eventually went to the loo and there was lots of bloody mucus, it was very dark and looked like huge clots.
I went back to my GP and was told that because I was terminal it wouldn't be investigated and I was sent away, there was no offer of anything to help with the pain either. Several more weeks passed and the bleeding was getting worse, so I asked to see one of the oncologists at my local hospice, and I explained everything to him, he listened and then he gave me a rectal examination, but unfortunately he couldn't find the source of the pain and strongly advised me to go and see my GP again, which I did, but this time I asked to see someone different, the doctor I seen this time was lovely and he was appalled when I told him what the other doctor had said and he got the ball rolling to get me tested.
Within two weeks I was diagnosed with a tumour in the sigmoid colon, however at this point I don't know what is going to happen or if has spread anywhere else as we are waiting on the biopsy results and I'm having an MRI scan today, and a specialised CT scan next week.
