Fuck Cancer
I’d Been Sick For Months.
I thought I had Crohn's Disease, or maybe Intestinal Colitis, so I had a colonoscopy. Turns out, nope; a 5cm tumour, 10cm up my shoot. Dammit. My gastroenterologist thinks it's malignant. I guess we'll wait and see.
This video isn't about the process of dealing with my cancer,
it's a call to action for YOU.
If you're over 50, get screened.
If your parents are over 50, hassle them until they get screened.
If your grandparents haven't been screened, get them to get screened.
Typically, I'm not old enough to have this yet, but I do.
Here are the symptoms that led to the gastroscopy that found the tumour:
Bloody Poops
Chronic Diarrhoea
Chronic exhaustion
Unexplained weight loss.
If you, or anyone you give a damn about, is experiencing these symptoms get them to have an awkward conversation with a doctor about their butt. I guarantee the doc won't find it awkward at all. Bowel cancers are a lot more common than people think, but no one talks about them much. They’re not sexy like boob or skin cancers.
*Huge thanks to Tara Jarvis for the idea of the wordplay in the title. She’s so clever.
The 5cm Tumour in my rectum is indeed malignant. That means it's cancerous. Let's get a CT and MRI done and then carry on with the rest of the treatment shall we?
