My story

After a colonoscopy procedure on June 13th 2012 I was diagnosed with bowel cancer (tumour of the rectum) as I am such a young age this was a complete shock to all the medical professionals, my family, friends and especially to myself. In my deepest thoughts I would never expect to be diagnosed with cancer let alone bowel cancer. I sat there in numbness just nodding and saying "ok" as the surgeon explained it all to me…

I am 21 years old and work full time in a nursery school. I'm a fun active (usually) fit and healthy young girl and i enjoy spending time with my long term boyfriend (Toby) family and friends. I have had severe abdominal pains for 3 years before I changed doctor surgery and they actually started to take me seriously that something was wrong (I wasn't just being a hypercondriact.) After numerous amounts of ultra sounds…