Hi Everyone! I’m approaching my three year anniversary of the day I got that horrible news and I was thinking back to this forum, and I realised I never came to say that I made the other side. I hope by doing so it’ll give hope to others, especially when you read my old posts of how frightened I was.
the long and the short of it is - on the 9th Feb 2023 a Tumor was discovered during a colonoscopy which turned out to be a T3N2M0 ileum adenocarcinoma
I had a right hemicolectomy in May that year (no stoma) and 4 rounds of chemo. The grade was also reduced to N1 after testing.
Genetic testing was done and it was discovered I have lynch syndrome (PMS2) so will have colonoscopies for life.
And by Christmas 2023 I was in remission officially! It’s….so strange looking back. I don’t think I really processed what happened. 2024 I did become quite depressed. Twice I had calls that my CEA levels had risen a little though they did go back down again which set off my anxiety of course.
But…I made it! And I’m ok! The anniversaries are hard, the surveillance stuff always brings worry, but I’m here and I’m ok!
I hope this will bring comfort to people, and am happy to answer any questions!
Nicole
