I was diagnosed with Bowel Cancer at the start of 2023 but although I joined this site shortly after my treatment, which I am very pleased to say only required surgery. My luck was very much in and we caught the cancer early, so it didn't require any chemo following the surgery which was carried out within 10 weeks of me first going to my GP.
I cannot still even fully say how lucky I felt when I looked back following the surgery, the pure relief one feels is unexplainable both to myself the patient, which I think of as a victim of cancer. Though I am unable to get into my wife (L's) head the physical appearance at this news showed 10 fold in her demeanour. At that same time there is a guilty feeling that the next person the nurse is seeing that morning could be bad news, a job I would not like to have to perform.
It is now coming up to nearly 2 years and all the follow up test are negative, how long for I don't know but pray it will be some time yet, if not for me then for my (L). Do I fear death? after some soul searching for myself I do not fear what one has to do as part of life, we all die at some point and can only try to do so much to remain with our families and loved ones. In that I mean to eat right, keep healthy living, stop smoking if you smoke or vape, every little might help one never can say.(L) is of the mind that if you don't fear death then its rather like giving up on life, but I tell her it is not giving up, it is only saying you accept it as part of life and you cannot say when it may come, so make the most of the time you have got with the people you love and do what you can to stay with them for as long as you can. So Hello from Rabbit55 Don't give up? Never give up?
