Rose2020's Blog

  • Anterior resection op successful 11th Jan

    FormerMember
    FormerMember

    I am back home exactly one week today, following my operation on January 11th. What a week that was. 

    Firstly, it seemed uncertain and 'unconfirmed' that the operation would actually go ahead as hoped. London hospitals, indeed all UK hospitals are more than stretched and this notion only added a further degree of worry and anxiety. Added to this, it was made clear after my two scans, that the tumour was obstructing my…

  • Ending 2020 with a cancer diagnosis

    FormerMember
    FormerMember

    Well, as if a year of a terrifying, world changing, pandemic was not enough to deal with! After a few bloody stools and a visit to my local surgery in London, my entire world began to tilt upside down, in a rather nightmarish way. Follow up colonoscopy (simple enough with fantastic smiling NHS staff), a CT scan was requested and carried out. All of this done within the space of 4 weeks. Considering what is currently going…