Living the “Survivor” Life

This is my survivorship story – the story after cancer, the lessons I learnt and the new normal I now live with.

Struck by Cancer

It was a Friday morning. The aches were mild but nagged through the day. It had been like this for a couple of weeks and I had scheduled a colonoscopy with a gastroenterologist when basic medicines with my GP failed to cure it. I lay on the bed, the colonoscopy tube running into my guts. …