The Bowel Movement

Hi I’m Lucy , team captain of the bowel Movement, although we are fundraising as a whole I will put a little personal piece about my own experience with having cancer , I can also add how amazing this Relay for life was for us as a family/ friends more need to take part , I’m going to add a photo of our fundraising theme set which was a country and western festival called Mellowstone , we set up a Airsoft target shooting gallery to raise funds for cancer research, we were also lucky enough to win a trophy for best dresses tent .

Personal piece

I was diagnosed with stage 3 colon cancer, 1.5yrs ago during a colonoscopy, I had been unwell for a year previous, being anaemic, agonising pain , urgent toilet requirements upon eating most things but that was it you could easily mistake this from Just normal things or gallstones as I was diagnosed with because of the pain.

I continued to push and eventually I was given a colonoscopy where I came face to face with my 5cm tumour, I was surprisingly positive about it and was told the next 6 weeks would be a whirlwind, I had a CT scan which told them the cancer had spread into my lymph nodes they wanted me to have chemo before my op but the tumour was not suitable for the chemo and would not make a difference, so I went into surgery on Nov 9th to have a right sided hemicolectomy plus 32 Lymph nodes removed, thank fully it had not metastasised.

The recovery was very painful and some of the most dark moments of my life were lived during recovery but after a meeting with my oncologist I picked myself up again as I was told I would need 4 rounds of chemotherapy, oral and Iv , there isn’t enough room on here to put into words how chemo makes you feel but I can tell you by the 3rd day after a day on a chemo ward you were so low, sick and weak it was hard to face the next infusion , I did and rang the bell on March 23rd 2024, I’m currently clear left with some side effects but that’s a small price to pay .

Back to the fundraising.

As we have now completed the relay im hoping to generate a bit more fundraising from reaching out to my few friends , Please support this great cause .xx