WORDS: LISA JACKSON
In March 2017 I was sent the home-screening kit for bowel cancer, as I’d just turned 60. It took me a few months to pluck up the courage to even open the kit, since I’d had some symptoms (blood in my stools, plus going more frequently), but thought they may have been due to my Lyme’s disease. The screening result came back as ‘abnormal’ so I had to have a colonoscopy. I was still recovering from the procedure when I was told I had bowel cancer.
“Everything moved very quickly after that, there was barely time to draw breath: I had a tumour removed in a six-hour robotic operation the following month and six weeks after that I started chemotherapy. Unfortunately, I had an allergic reaction to the chemo drugs, so that had to be discontinued.
“After spending the first few days following the diagnosis in shock, I pulled myself together and set about recruiting Alex’s Army, as I called them, which included several well-known alternative cancer experts and local therapists. I read all I could and made many dietary changes too: having a lengthy section of my intestines removed had a dramatic impact on what I could and couldn’t eat. There are certain trigger foods I probably won’t ever be able to eat again, such as flax seeds, tomato seeds, foods containing fibre and whole foods.
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