It's a long time since I wrote a post.
That's because after I was made redundant, we had a couple of very happy months. We arranged to visit the family at Christmas, and although my husband didn't feel too well, we went hoping he'd recover.
He didn't. He turned yellow. We thought he'd developed jaundice, but that didn't seem too important as he had no other symptoms and he agreed to see the doctor after the holiday.
He still didn't feel well, and was still having bouts of yellow colouration, so off he went to see the doc and was referred to hospital. They did tests.
On 7th February he went for the results and came back saying 'it's not good news. It's cancer, and it's not treatable.' What do you say? Apparently he had bowel cancer, with no symptoms apart from a little indigestion, which had now spread to the liver and thereby prevented chemotherapy from being used because the liver would process it, and his was compromised.
The doctors didn't know how long he had, because he had had no symptoms to calculate from.
On 28th April, after rapidly going downhill, he died.
I'm posting this as a warning to people who think it's OK to skip apparently minor symptoms. My husband hadn't really had indigestion before, but thought it was just something to expect as you get older. I'm here to tell you that minor symptoms that are different to what you normally have can be a warning of cancer or something equally foul. Go and get checked. Before it's too late.
