Cancer Stories

Rectal Cancer Story

September 6th, 2006

I have been working as a Nurse in a nursing home for the last 2 years. One of my patient daughter was diagnosed with rectal cancer at age 42. The cancer was so advanced by the time when it was diagnosed, such that she had to get a colostomy.

The cancer formed a fistula to the vagina and so the bowel content could be seen coming out of the vagina. This is my most horrifying thing I have ever seen in my carrer.

She has been on hospice care for over 6 months but she is still hanging in there. The most disturbing thing is that her family want her to die, to stop the pain she goes through. The pain is both physical and psychological, due to colostomy and folet catheter.

Thats my story

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