Life after diagnosis

AKA @Bowelbabe

How did your bowel cancer diagnosis come about?

I’d been pooing blood, on and off, for about six months. I was tired, my bowel habits had changed and I was losing weight. I went to the doctor for some blood tests and everything came back normal. It was only when I had a colonoscopy done that a 6.5cm tumour was found in my bowel, followed by seven lung tumours on the scans. It wasn’t good: I had stage 4 bowel cancer. Fewer than eight percent of people survive for even five years when