Help more people beat cancer

An update to my original story... 

Two years ago I was raising funds for Beating Bowel Cancer with a sponsored diet.  I had no idea that a year later I would be fighting for my life with a return of that evil disease plus complications. 

I had been told during numerous visits to my GP that it was 'impossible' for a recurrence to happen, and I was fed the same old tired, incorrect, ill-informed gumf that I had heard twenty years previously.  "People like you," I was informed, "always think that their bowel cancer will come back - but it WON'T!"

It was as if nothing at all had changed regarding the education of doctors in bowel cancer detection of 'younger people'.  Terrifying.

Well, thankfully, 'people like me' are still alive and trying to raise awareness and funds - with your help again, if that's possible.  I know that it's tough financially at the moment, and I have set my target deliberately low-ish....

This time it's not a diet - the illness sorted that out for me - so instead I'm doing The Race for Life in High Wycombe on June 10th at 3pm.  Don't know if I'll be able to run a bit by then, not that I ever have been a runner of any description! 

However I do it, my thoughts will be with the many people who are not as lucky as me, who, through ignorance or lack of resources, have been diagnosed too late.  I've survived it twice, but only through luck really.

Events like Race for Life are vital in funding Cancer Research UK's life-saving work into preventing, diagnosing and treating cancer. By sponsoring me now you can help more people survive cancer.

Gift Aid it!

If you are a UK taxpayer, please remember to tick the Gift Aid box when donating as this will increase your donation by at least 25% at no cost to you.

Every pound you donate really does make a difference - so please sponsor me now!

Many thanks for your support. Together we will beat cancer.

 

Thank you SO much - Lu xxx

UPDATE!!!!!

A massive, massive THANK YOU to everyone who believed in me, supported me and sponsored me. The race was great fun, and next year I will be running the whole distance.  :)

My mission, however, continues..... to raise awareness of the early detection of bowel cancer, and to encourage people to fight for referral if they think that all is not quite right with their digestive system.

Bowel cancer has never succeeded in attracting the high profile, almost 'glamourous' (!)media image of some other cancers, which is hardly surprising, really.  Most folk don't go around talking about their innards too much; it remains one of the last taboos.   And, let's agree on this, it can be really awkward talking about your, er, private functions, to a doctor.

Of course, nothing will shock your doctor; the only shocking aspect is that so many still refer too late, dismissing their patients symptoms and writing them off as a mysterious condition called 'IBS', which, as we all know, really is quite meaningless.  This results in people actually dying of a preventable, treatable disease! Now if THAT isn't a shocking thought.....

So. My war cry - 'Don't Die of Embarrassment!'.  Get yourself checked out!  Be brave! Do it now! 

Thank you for listening, and thank you for helping me to get better

Lu xxx