Heya

Well I gotta admit - seeing a forum with “the room” for venting and it would have been rude not to join lol 

i am a 47 year old gal who was living her best life climbing mountains, trail running, huge gym goer (my fave class was boxing) and working hard when literally things got turned upside down in August. Having not even had so much as a blood test before, I just assumed a slightly dodgy tummy for a few months was down to overdoing it. And somehow i now have a life saving stoma (impassable stricture in the bowel) and stage 4 bowel cancer which has already spread to the peritoneal. I am having palliative immunotherapy and chemo (currently on my second cycle) and getting to grips with what life chucks at us. Being a headstrong Aussie has helped enormously …. Doing my utmost to kick this buggar as long and hard as I possibly can.

So a big hello to everyone in this group. Defo we got the short straw, but a bit of shared positivity goes a long, long way  And as for a room for ranting lol yeah, yeah - I am prone to the odd rant once in a while (think we are more than entitled to that)