Fighting early-onset, stage 3 rectal cancer
The tumor—where it’s at
I had my colonoscopy on Friday, December 3rd. Right after the procedure my gastroenterologist told me I had rectal cancer. That’s all he knew. He could see the cancer on the surface of the rectal wall. I needed to schedule a CT scan and an MRI to find out more.
What they didn’t say… cancer
The blood started showing up in late August. Didn’t hurt. There it just was with my stool and on the toilet paper. Back in my late twenties I had hemorrhoids. There’d been blood then. Prolly something similar I’d thought. They said it could be hemorrhoids, colitis, polyps, some kind of inflammation or growth...