The treatment was gruelling, with Melissa battling constant and relentless nausea and tiredness, along with neuropathy and hair thinning but was grateful not to lose her hair.
On 10 June, Melissa completed her last chemotherapy session. On 12 June, she celebrated her 35 th birthday. Once she was feeling stronger, she returned to work and began exercising regularly again. Since the end of treatment, Melissa has had another colonoscopy and a gastroscopy and other tests which have all been clear. Melissa has since learned that she was always at high risk of developing bowel cancer, since testing has now revealed a hereditary bowel cancer genetic condition in her family.
Her uncle contracted bowel cancer at the age of 24, and her maternal grandmother died from the disease at just She faces a lifetime of testing, and a significantly increased risk of not only a bowel cancer recurrence, but of other related cancers such as uterine cancer. I urge people to do a bowel screening test to help detect the presence of polyps or cancer, which can usually be successfully treated when caught early. With love we welcome:. Abbey Grace 7 pounds 8 ounces Born Bowel Cancer What is bowel cancer?
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So I went back to my primary care doctor. He thought my symptoms were still probably within the normal spectrum of pregnancy, but I told him they weren't.
He sent me to a GI specialist right away, who was also concerned about the risk of dehydration. The specialist thought I could have ulcerative colitis and wanted to start me on treatment with steroids, but then decided to do a scan first to verify the diagnosis. Two days later, I was at Advocate Christ Medical Center for the test, which was like a truncated version of a colonoscopy. You could tell right away; the tumor was right there.
I then had a full colonoscopy, and I was diagnosed with stage 2 colorectal cancer. Because I thought it was just ulcerative colitis, I had gone to the scan by myself. My husband was at home with our three kids. Here I was at the hospital by myself being diagnosed with cancer. I was in disbelief. I remember thinking, Are you freaking kidding me? It felt surreal. I had no risk factors, no family history. Had I not seem the tumor on the scan, I would have thought it was a joke.
I was sent for lab work and got a lot of information—the wheels started turning immediately. A whole team was assembled. I had to break it to him that this is what we were looking at now. Because of the pregnancy, everything went super fast. I always say that had I not been pregnant, who knows how long it would have taken to diagnose me?
Colorectal cancer symptoms—like abdominal pain or changes in bowel habits—can be similar to early signs of pregnancy, so it can be hard to diagnose. When I had an ultrasound to look at the size and depth of the tumor within the muscle walls, part of my uterus was in the way.
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