A colonoscopy is not fun, but artist Jennifer Cuthbert is a fan. After months of being told by her doctor not to worry about uncomfortable GI symptoms, she got the call she was dreading - via healthing_ca coloncanada healthing coloncancer gettested
Treat patients as partners and not obstacles to be managed, writes Alexander Boldizar, whose wife Tania died of colorectal cancer on February 27, 2022.A year later, in 2019, they found some polyps, which were biopsied. My doctor again said he wasn’t worried. But two or three weeks later he called said that he was sorry, that he didn’t expect this, but I had colon cancer. He probably hadn’t been overly concerned at first because I was young and didn’t have a family history of cancer.
I was fine, physically, in about two or three weeks, though it took a little longer for my intestinal tract to be fully normal. I’m still getting annual colonoscopies, and I’m doing okay. I don’t work anymore; I used to work as a project administrator for a computer network and systems integration company. I’m on disability now, but I live on my own and don’t have health care aids. My family has been extremely supportive; without them I do not know where I would be.
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