Hi 10 weeks ago my life turned on it’s head .. didn’t know a tumour was hiding in my colon ! Along with abscess which was the thing that made me ill ! Emergency surgery and news I’d cancer T3/4 and I was getting surgery was the curveball I didn’t see!! 3 wks in hospital and a pleural effusion fast forward to today .. chemo by tablets going well, luckily no sign of any spread and 26 lymph nodes they checked were clear !!! Why do I feel if it’s too good to be true it usually is ?? That I’ve been so lucky with everything.. yes shocked but I’m doing ok .. pleural effusion still hanging in there ! Getting it checked today
Thank you 
tumour was T3 verging on T4 but it was removed x
Hi, your story is almost exactly same as mine ! Minus the stress of waiting, I’m cycle 1 and soo far all ok but tired , learning to live with stoma but it’s ok 
, today’s to check fluid is going away 
I’m on oral capecitabine too , hope you do really we
Hi Stomagirl...noticed having chemo mop up tablets with your stoma ..I gave been told can't have tablets with stoma?? I have had radiotherapy and chemotherapy tablets before surgery and considering 
e precautionary chemo ...thinking nope as low risk stage 2 histology nothing there ... oncologist has given me the choice and tells me whatever I decide is the right decision
Hi rose , fluid isn’t moving from lung much , has vastly improved but I’ve to get ct scan.. cancer rollercoaster continues.. it’s precautionary to rule it out so not diagnosed , trying to be positiv
Hi , I was given option of capecitabine and iv chemo or just capecitabine tablets, because I have pleura effusion, they had to wait till fluid cleared a bit then it was you need to start chemo soon.
so started 14/5 , all good soo far with little side effects, but today my lung isn’t cleared as they would like so ct scan to rule out more cancer I’d go with what your oncologist says as they know exactly what you need
all the best
