I guess I should say hi.

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Hi everyone, been lurking on here for a while. Figured I'm here to stay for a while, hopefully.

Diagnosed with stage 3 colon cancer in September, had bowel resection and 30 lymph nodes taken out. While surgeon was in there he looked at my liver. Scans had shown something but they didn't think it was cancer. On closer inspection, I have liver and lung mets. Lymph nodes were cancerous 19 out of 30. Changed to stage 4 and palliative treatment only. Now on 12 rounds of folfox. Have just found out I have the braf mutation. More aggressive and harder to treat. So that's me

eddiel 3 hours ago

Hi Blondiebird, and welcome, I know your not new to the community, or indeed our forum, I have seen you post occasionally, but as its your1st thread, a warm welcome from me, though I am sorry you've found yourself here, somewhere non of us would wish to be, though I was on the Bowel, colon and rectal forum once, for a rectal tumour, my cancer is different to yours, though we are both on palliative treatment, the good people on the forum are a wonderful group, as you will know, mostly girls with a few boys, always happy to help and support everyone who finds themselves here, feel free to ask any questions about anything, we get a little more leeway on our forum, if you want to scream, rant, laugh, just chat or need a shoulder to cry on, then please do so, there are many on here well past their prognosis, even "cured", to give hope to us all, and I hope you will find the friendship and understanding from the guys on here who know what living with our prognosis really means helps you, like it helps us all, and hopefully for a long time too.

Eddie xx