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 and blood tests etc someone realised a shaded area in my lower abdomen so I was referred for a MRI scan in early 2012. Then in May I was called into an emergency appointment with the doctors at the surgery ( I thought it was just standard procedure as you do) so off I went and was confronted with 3 Drs. The appointment consisted of them telling me the shaded area was not my gynaecological region but in my bowel. As my mum suffers with IBS I thought the worse thing it could be is that. But the went on to tell me I needed to go to the hospital to have a thorough examination by the colorectal team (didn't even know what that was.) I refused to go straight away as my partner and I were flying out to Gran Canaria in two days time. So after a long discussion they decided I could go but I had to visit the hospital as soon as I was home.
I thought no more about it for that week I just enjoyed our lovely holiday and got very sunburnt (oops) but when I was home the letter of referral was waiting for me Wednesday 6th June 2012 I had an appointment with the colorectal surgeon.
So the day came and I went in to meet with Mr.Lidder and the nurse Sally (who were both very lovely.) Unfortunately I was on my own at first but soon enough I could here my mum and Ka (boyfriends mum) talking in the waiting room. They got there just after I had been assessed by the Dr (which wasn't pleasant.) He told us there was a lot of blood inside my rectum and he would need to do further examination by a procedure called a colonoscopy ( I swear they make these words up.) After 20 minutes I had signed and consented to all the forms and went home. Still none the wiser of how serious things were about to become.
