Cancer could have killed me, but the worst was yet to come.

To the Moderators, I could not find a forum to cover this, so feel free to move it to the correct place.

Hi All

In 2008, while I was at my father’s funeral on the Monday – I felt so depressed, but what I did not expect was on the Friday, an Oncologist phoned me asking if I could go in to hospital ready for surgery on the Monday, they had found I had testical cancer. I attended the appointment and had the operation, and with a 7 year remission period, so I am still in this even now.

The chance of beating testical cancer these days is very high, if caught in time. …And I thought that time was bad, but I had worse to come in years that followed. Doctors assumed I was suffering from IBS, and therefore treated me for it. What they did not know was a problem linked to any form of cancer effecting the abdominal area. In January 2012, I spent the whole month in hospital, with abdominal pain I had never even encountered before. Part of my intestines was gangrene and the longer it was left the chances of survival was dropping rapidly. I was operated on and over 50cm of my intestine was removed. But over the next couple of days, instead of recovering I became worse, much worse, I was sick just on water, until the point where all that came out was a black substance. At this point I was rushed down to surgery again to have a second operation, they found part of another organ which was close to the intestine that was dead, had also died. It took me over a year to get over this double operation, and feel normal again.

I thought I would bring this up, because I could not find anything on patient.info – I did not know the two were even linked, but I can assure you they are – both can kill if not treated. The two were Testical Cancer and Small intestinal ischemia and infarction. I had about a 3 year gap, but this can vary and there are factors that can cause the second problem.  

Regards,

Les.

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