The ultimate slap in the face

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  • Lauren8239
    Lauren8239 Posts: 1,039 Member
    bump
  • Lauren8239
    Lauren8239 Posts: 1,039 Member
    Wow. You guys are sad.
  • ElizabethRoad
    ElizabethRoad Posts: 5,138 Member
    Maybe your thread just wasn't interesting.
  • xxSjayxx
    xxSjayxx Posts: 56 Member
    WOW what a story - I hope she has a wonderful life and spreads the world! :cry:
  • Lauren8239
    Lauren8239 Posts: 1,039 Member
    Maybe your thread just wasn't interesting.

    Yeah I think you're right. No shallow silly crap. I have learned. :smile:
  • Ready2Rock206
    Ready2Rock206 Posts: 9,487 Member
    Yikes - not the way you want to lose weight!
  • mamamudbug
    mamamudbug Posts: 572 Member
    Truly sad. I have a friend recovering from this type of cancer. It's so important to not ignore warning signs.
  • ComicBookGeekGirl
    ComicBookGeekGirl Posts: 202
    Give people time to read it. I just got here. How sad for her! The sad thing is, if I was in her shoes, I would have been thrilled at the weight loss and not been concerned with being tired all the time. Maybe others will learn from this. :ohwell:
  • Umeboshi
    Umeboshi Posts: 1,637 Member
    Ahhh that's depressing. :(
  • crisanderson27
    crisanderson27 Posts: 5,343 Member
    Ahhh that's depressing. :(

    Which was probably why so few replied, right? Not wanting to think about how effed up life can be apparently means we're shallow and silly.

    Go figure.
  • mamamudbug
    mamamudbug Posts: 572 Member
    Give people time to read it. I just got here. How sad for her! The sad thing is, if I was in her shoes, I would have been thrilled at the weight loss and not been concerned with being tired all the time. Maybe others will learn from this. :ohwell:

    I could see ignoring fatigue. I do not understand why someone would ignore passing blood...
  • LaMujerMasBonitaDelMundo
    LaMujerMasBonitaDelMundo Posts: 3,634 Member
    Oh wow that's too bad & scary, I guess this serves as a lesson for all of us not to take things for granted.

    Anyway its nice of her to share this very important information to all of us. However I don't understand how she ignored these symptoms:
    THE SYMPTOMS TO LOOK OUT FOR
    Bowel cancer affects more than 36,500 people in the UK every year.

    It is the second most common cancer in women - around 18,400 new cases were diagnosed in the UK in 2009.

    The biggest single risk factor is age as the chances of having bowel cancer go up after 50.

    1 in 10 people are under 50 when they get bowel cancer - Melanie Swan-Horton (featured) is 46.
    Early bowel cancer may have no symptoms. Initial symptoms can also occur in people with less serious problems such as haemorrhoids.

    However, the NHS recommends seeing your doctor if you notice the following:

    - Blood in your stools or bleeding from the rectum
    - A change to normal bowel habits for a number of weeks – such as diarrhoea or constipation, abdominal pain or a lump in the stomach, unexplained weight loss.
    - As the disease progresses it can also cause anaemia leading to fatigue and breathlessness.
    When Melanie noticed blood in the toilet she was alarmed. ‘ I was shocked at first but then I remembered hearing that lifting weights could cause small bleeds so again I put it down to the exercise.
    Uh this is very false. I never experienced bleeds from lifting weights


    * Got these infos from that article itself
  • CindyCountingCalories
    CindyCountingCalories Posts: 321 Member
    Bump for later...
  • wackyfunster
    wackyfunster Posts: 944 Member
    Great, now we're going to see new posts every day asking how to get colon cancer! Thanks OP! :P
  • crisanderson27
    crisanderson27 Posts: 5,343 Member
    Great, now we're going to see new posts every day asking how to get colon cancer! Thanks OP! :P

    Dude....no shallowness or silliness allowed!!
  • LaMujerMasBonitaDelMundo
    LaMujerMasBonitaDelMundo Posts: 3,634 Member
    Great, now we're going to see new posts every day asking how to get colon cancer! Thanks OP! :P

    Dude....no shallowness or silliness allowed!!

    I second that.

    Although that dude just like to appear sarcastic but really this is no joke.

    We should be thankful that the OP took the time to share this scary yet very real experience so that we will all be aware of this disease.
  • wackyfunster
    wackyfunster Posts: 944 Member
    Great, now we're going to see new posts every day asking how to get colon cancer! Thanks OP! :P

    Dude....no shallowness or silliness allowed!!
    Well damn, that exhausts my entire skillset then :<

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