Hi,
Well my name is Anne (53), married 31 years with 3 sons and living in Aberdeen. My eldest son gave us our 1st grandchild 2 weeks ago, young Tommy & my middle son gets married in one week's time, a week to the day since my diagnosis.
I felt bad that this thing was to cause them hurt in such happy times in their lives but it's not something i had any choice in!
15th July 2010: a change in my normal routine of BM took me to the GP
7th Aug: colonoscopy gave me an immediate diagnosis of a malignant villous tumour, 60mm. I had anticipated polyps but not a cancer diagnosis without even waiting for biopsy confirmation.
10th Aug: Karen the cancer nurse made contact to see if I had any questions
13th Aug: letters advising me of MRI & CT scans came
13th Aug Karen phoned to confirm biopsy results as cancer
14th Aug, my son's wedding
19th Aug: MRI scan
20th Aug: 09.05 Surgeon Ms Aileen McKinley's secretary phoned to admit me for a short procedure on Mon aft to see how best to proceed
20th Aug: Karen, Macmillan nurse phoned at 14.40 with MRI results. She said the scans showed I could have short course radiotherapy & surgery the following week or even straight to surgery, depending what the Surgeon says once she sees me on Mon aft.
Well considering I was only diagnosed one day short of 2 weeks ago, things have moved incredibly fast; bit scary as I was unaware I had cancer before then.
My present course of action sounds so much better than the initial route that might have included 6 weeks radiotherapy, 2 months rest & then surgery, taking me into December.
At this rate I could be facing surgery before my son comes back from honeymoon & he doesn't even know I have cancer!
Well hopefully I can sleep better tonight knowing the cancer might be out in a couple of weeks rather than a few months. It still sounds weird that I am living with cancer, seems unreal especially as I look & feel the same, full of figure and not unwell.
Christina friends and family have added their prayers to my own and for me that makes a difference - I feel bouyed up by the cushion my faith gives me.
Enough for today x
