Julie’s cancer Journey
By Julie House July 2011
When I was diagnosed with bowel cancer in January this year, I was 53 years old and terrified. Insulted too. I had been practising yoga for years and considered myself fit and healthy. Why did I have cancer? My diet hadn’t always been optimal, stress levels had been difficult for a few periods, and I had over-indulged in food and alcohol fairly often. But I was still slim, energetic and agile. My friends and acquaintances were shocked, too.
We all live with the threat of cancer because the cell mutations occur within us all the time and I believe cancer strikes in a random manner, or as the oncologist said “Sh*t happens to nice people’’.. My “quality control” – my immune system – failed to detect a mutated cell division and it fired off.
A few bouts of irritable bowel symptoms might have been a warning, but I changed my diet to exclude gluten and it helped. I lost a few kilos and had more energy. Then I noticed some blood spots the resultant colonoscopy found cancer. I never felt unwell with the cancer. That’s why we need to talk about this insidious disease.
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