After months of being told by her doctor not to worry about her symptoms, artist Jennifer Cuthbert got the call she was dreading - via healthing_ca coloncanada cancersociety healthing Canada coloncancer cancer
I was told I would have to have laparoscopic surgery [in which a short, narrow tube fitted with a camera is inserted into a small incision in the belly to check organs, remove damaged or diseased organs, or take tissue for biopsy] to remove the tumour, and that a right hemicolectomy [a procedure that removes the right side of the colon and attaches the small intestine to the remaining portion of the colon] would be done.
The only medication I’m on is an injection of vitamin B12, which I’ll get every month for the rest of my life. Your body needs vitamin B12 to function, but I still can’t absorb it naturally. I’m still getting annual colonoscopies, and I’m doing okay. I don’t work anymore; I used to work as a project administrator for a computer network and systems integration company. I’m on disability now, but I live on my own and don’t have health care aids. My family has been extremely supportive; without them I do not know where I would be.
I paint, and that, plus my late cat, were my lifelines through the illnesses . I’m not the best artist but I’m certainly exploring it. My illnesses and life’s trials and my art have made me wake up and appreciate my life and be happy for everything that I have.
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