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In a recent post, I discussed the impact of your cancer on the people around you. In that post, I suggested that, ‘to some extent,

Before my bowel resection surgery, I was warned that I might end up living with an ileostomy bag. As it was, I woke up with

Cancer, when it happens, it doesn’t only happen to the patient, it happens to the other people in the patient’s life. I wasn’t diagnosed with

In the UK, there is a public health service, known as the National Health Service (NHS), which provides comprehensive, universal health care, that is free at

Chemotherapy after surgery for bowel cancer is a lot like chemotherapy before surgery for bowel cancer. And I’ve already written about that.  To which end,

Having woken up with a colostomy bag, following bowel surgery to remove my primary tumour, and deciding that the bags were better than irrigation, it

Having unexpectedly woken with a colostomy bag, and then choosing to continue using colostomy bags over irrigation, it was just a case of living with

Waking with a colostomy bag after bowel surgery was something of a challenge. But the next one was just around the corner. Deciding on whether

After my bowel cancer surgery, waking with a colostomy bag was something of a shock. Particularly as I’d got my mind around the idea that I’d

My bowel cancer surgery was on 28th October 2014. This was seven months after I learned I had cancer, on the colonoscopy table, on 21st

Complications of liver surgery are uncommon, but they happen. My liver surgery had gone so smoothly that I was home after only two nights in

Liver surgery for bowel cancer is a strange concept to get your head around. Stranger, still, in my case, was the decision to do the