Hi all,
I am reading a lot of other people’s situations, and find it very sad that so many people are in this similar situation, strangely it is also a comfort. My wife has stage 4 bowel cancer which is incurable, she starts palliative chemo next week, it is frightening to think that 4 months ago she regularly walked 6 miles a day at work on a quiet day, we had no inkling at all. Her situation has not been helped by the fact that no scan was done to locate the cause of her severe constipation. This has left me very angry, as I left the hospital when she went for her bypass a doctor asked me why a scan had not been done earlier, I told him I couldn’t answer as she had 7 gp appointments, and over the previous 6 weeks had spent 10 hours in a and e, I did ask if he could explain to me as we could see the scan building through the window. This means that any treatment is being hampered by a very traumatic period and then major invasive surgery, oh and she caught Covid too.
I am trying to put this all to one side so that we can concentrate on the now, we are looking forward to Christmas and have fantastic friends and family.
