New Diagnosis, Ascending Colon cancer

Thank you for your encouraging & positive post!! I’m so happy to hear that you have successfully completed your treatment, and the regular monitoring is planned! 
it is so reassuring to read positive stories!

it must have been really tough especially with your daughter being 1! Aww bless!! I’m SUPER impressed! You’re AMAZING!! Kids can give us so much strength without us even realising it!

My daughter is 21 & my son is 17 - and they have been my little rocks xx 

My tumour is 5 cm and I saw it during the colonoscopy and remember asking the Endoscopist “What the hell is THAT??” lol!! I was HIGH on Medazolam at the time! 

My first appointment with my Colorectal Surgeon is tomorrow and hopefully I’ll be informed about the extent of the issue. Feeling nervous but I’m ready.

Wish me luck!! 

It’s so important to read and really hang on to the positive stories, I read too many negative ones at first and it wasn’t healthy for my mind. At the end of the day we have no choice but to be positive and have all the hope. So must focus on that entirely! 

I also have a 21 year old so have both ends of the kid experience!! They def help you through the dark times that’s for sure 

Sending all the positive vibes. Make sure you ask all the questions no matter how small or silly they may feel. And trust your doctors. They know best - it’s their job to save you xx 

Agree!! The negative posts on this platform really scared me and made me cry! So I stopped reading them. Definitely keeping positive involves tapping into some positive, empowering activities and meeting people who have successfully helped me laugh though what feels like the worst, vomit-inducing rollercoaster ride of my life! 

You’ve cracked me up with 2 things:

1) I was eating a mince pie when you mentioned mince pies

2) I saw my tumour on my scan too and said EXACTLY the same thing

Awesome!!!  I said a few choice words at that time, but I didn’t want to add them to my post - lots of F@!#s and S@&!!  Ha! Ha! Potty mouth galour, then I proceeded to tell her how the Bowel Prep made me poo like Trevi fountain…or the reverse end from the Exorcist…it was bad! lol! 

Hiya Sweetie,

Thank you for your positivity. It really does make a massive difference when I’m sitting here in my dressing gown with a bit of tummy ache trying not to feel scared, and self-pitying and rubbish. You and https://community.macmillan.org.uk/members/sonibee have made me smile tonight.

Man, I’m properly laughing now. I had gas and air and I’m pretty sweary anyway so it was just opening the floodgates for an absolute verbal toilet. I also apparently was hugely sweary when my surgeon came to see me after the operation. The healthcare workers couldn’t wait to tell me about it, but I have absolutely no memory of it at all!!

Good luck today! Remember you are not alone and we are all here. Think of tonight when you are sat with a cuppa and mince pie, and a plan. It will be ok, and remember no feeling is permanent. You’vegot this!!

Thank you ️ Tonight’s gonna be a two-mince pie sort of night…with ice cream…

…and a few choice words. Thinking of you. Xxx