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Camilla Daniel

Camilla's Walk All Over Cancer Fundraising Page

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A Walking Wanderer against Cancer...

My Story

The story of "Lynch Syndrome" - 21 years and counting.... This March we are walking 10,000 steps a day throughout the month to help beat cancer. "Lynch syndrome is a genetic disorder that causes an increased risk of developing certain types of cancer" (colon and rectal cancer, cancers of the stomach, small intestine, liver, gallbladder ducts, upper urinary tract, brain, skin, and prostate) At the age of 35 our mum was diagnosed with bowel cancer (large bowel). After successful resection and chemotherapy, our mum was able to return to a relatively normal life. 16 years later and the bowel cancer had returned. Again after relatively early detection and another successful resection she was able to return back to a mostly normal life. In 2019 after frequent trips to the GP and Accident & Emergency over 9-10 months my mum finally received a diagnosis of stage 4 bowel cancer (small bowel) and the added news that this was an inoperable tumor. This was devastating news for our family, and a distressing lead up to the diagnosis. Our mum had been experiencing symptoms of bloatedness, eventually progressing to intermittent vomitting not particularly triggered by any particular food group (and believe me we tried it all), which eventually progressed to persistent vomitting, being unable to keep down anything. I encourage anyone out there who is concerned and experiencing these symptoms, please go and seek professional advice. As we know, early detection can make a difference to survival outcomes, but her symptoms are not the "typical" reported symptoms of bowel cancers which meant the right diagnostic tests perhaps were not used at the right time resulting in a delayed diagnosis. This is why I want to share this story, to raise awareness about what non-typical presentations might look like, which may help improve outcomes in the future, and contribute to the ongoing research in Cancer care. This diagnosis has been very different for our family as you can imagine, during such an unpresedented time, and has hit the hardest of all the cancer diagnosis. Mentally removing a tumor does something for giving hope even though cancer survivors and their families live with the possibility of the cancer returning which for our family and many others out there is a sad reality. Each day we live through the worry of the cancer progressing or risk of exposure to Co-vid and what that might mean but we also live in hope that she can live to fight another day and at least maintain a quality of life for as long as possible if no "cure" I was a very young child when the first diagnosis occurred, only recalling that my mum was not at home for a long period of time. 2019 became a tale of two halves as we had a lovely 60th birthday celebration for my mum in June, she had taken her first trip to the gym and smashed her session, but also regular trips to A&E with her certainly took its toll. Being out of the country when the current diagnosis was confirmed, was a devastating blow but I knew that we had to prepare and be supportive for the tough road ahead upon my return... As an adult I have come to understand cancer to be a long-term condition that people are surviving longer with, thanks to the amazing research, time, effort and the charitable society we live in, collectively comitted to standing up to cancer. Thanks for visiting our fundraising page. Help us Walk All Over Cancer and fund life-saving research by making a donation to our page. #Rarecancers #Standup2cancer #talkaboutsmallbowelcancer #Lynchsyndrome

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