The Emergency Department completed scans and told me I had appendicitis. When they transferred me to another hospital for surgery, the doctors noticed a small lump in my bowel and investigated further. I was told I had cancer, and no other information was provided at that time.
Looking back over the last few years the symptoms were always there but life gets in the way and you dismiss them.
To say I was in shock was an understatement. I was numb. I’m 42 years old with 2 children and a wife and family, I can’t get cancer.
I went and got the diagnosis alone. Probably not a good idea. You hear the first words, ‘You’ve got cancer’ and then you don’t hear another word after that.
Brian had really no clear symptoms (of Neuroendocrine Cancer) and if he hadn’t complained about a sore arm I am not sure what would have happened.
