Archive for October 24th, 2007
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Maybe the Mexican meal we had at Magaritas turned out to be a God send. We both felt quite ill after our burrito as it seemed to be highly acidic. It seemed to affect Andrew much more than me and therefore, after a consultation with the doctor it led to a colonoscopy.
Obviously, you hope that the result of any test will bring good news not bad. But it is also frustrating if tests keep finding nothing when you know something is wrong.
We finally got to the bottom (no pun intended) of the whole thing and the colonoscopy uncovered a small cancerous tumour in his colon. Initially I must admit this was shocking news for me and very unwelcome, but once I had come to terms with it I realised how lucky we both are that we have caught the cancer at such an early stage. We must thank Dr Sharkey at Parkview Hospital in Maine who initially identified the cancer, it is currently only 0.1cm and therefore in it’s infancy which should mean that they can just cut is straight out. In the US, colon cancer is extremely prevalent, at least 50% of the population suffer from it during their lifetime.
Andrew had no pain (prior to the Mexican meal) with this cancer and therefore, a colonoscopy was an important part of the discovery of it.