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  • Brief Evening Visit To A&E

    HawkeyeBrown
    February 21st is the first time throughout all of this (and I really hope only time, touch wood) that I noticed blood in my stools. This is obviously a sign of bowel cancer and to be expected, but honestly it freaked me out. It did not look like a lo...

  • Second Trip To Hospital

    HawkeyeBrown
    What lead to this next hospital stay on February 8th was that I woke up feeling very uncomfortable in my stomach area, feeling stabbing pains and that I didn’t really want to eat. I managed to get an emergency doctor’s appointment in Brac...

  • Bowel Cancer UK Symptoms Of Bowel Cancer

    HawkeyeBrown
    I am including this section in my story, just so people can see what they should be looking out for (I only looked this up after my diagnosis). The main symptoms to look out for on Bowel Cancer UK’s website (https://www.bowelcanceruk.org.uk/abo...

  • Hindsight Is A Splendid Thing, How Did I Get Here? Plus First Trip To Hospital

    HawkeyeBrown
    In the few weeks leading up to this, I had a few health issues that myself and my wife could not explain, me being me, I didn’t think it would be anything, it was a lot more my wife acknowledging that perhaps I should get checked out. One of th...

  • Introduction

    HawkeyeBrown
    30th January 2021 is a day that myself and my loved ones will not forget in a hurry, this was the day I was told I had what looked like a tumour in my bowel, but further investigations would need to be carried out to see if it was cancerous. My name ...
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