Anxiously waiting -bowel cancer support

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Hello

my husband had a bowel cancer diagnoses last week but everything feels like it’s taking ages to progress

no scan for another two weeks and appointment with surgeon in 4 weeks which I’m sure is normal but we are finding the waiting impossible 

Letter from hospital says ‘At 45cm in the proximal there is a 5cm circumferencial’ but we have no point of reference as to what this means in real life 

does anyone have experience getting treatment through aviva healthcare rather than NHS Scotland? 

with two young kids at home, I can’t imagine how we can get through the next 4 weeks of worry while pretending everything is normal 

not sure what I’m looking for really. Maybe just some words of wisdom from anyone else who’s been in this situation