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by Maggie Nell
Sun Mar 19, 2023 9:27 am
Forum: Colon Talk - Colon cancer (colorectal cancer) support forum
Topic: Kidney stone, uinary retention and urinary catheter at home
Replies: 9
Views: 2036

Re: Kidney stone, uinary retention and urinary catheter at home

Not quite the clusterf**k you are having, but I had a rough time in 2022 with a never-ending UTI's and a few kidney stones. I found that Naproxen 750mg which is a sustained release tablet NSAID really sorted out the pain Have a chat with the Kidney Foundation of Canada to discuss overhauling your di...
by Maggie Nell
Tue Nov 01, 2022 12:52 pm
Forum: Colon Talk - Colon cancer (colorectal cancer) support forum
Topic: A Song about Prevention
Replies: 0
Views: 6257

A Song about Prevention

Tim Hawkins - Colonoscopy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBp1oCiAMBU

This came via the Bowel Cancer Australia's FB group The Movement - Wellness Beyond Diagnosis

Earworm Alert!
by Maggie Nell
Sun Jul 03, 2022 11:40 pm
Forum: Colon Talk - Colon cancer (colorectal cancer) support forum
Topic: Another spot… ablation ahead
Replies: 18
Views: 4419

Re: Another spot… ablation ahead

“Find a life worth enjoying; take risks; love deeply; have no regrets;
and always, always have rebellious hope."
~ Dame Deborah James (bowelbabe)
by Maggie Nell
Tue Feb 15, 2022 8:22 am
Forum: Colon Talk - Colon cancer (colorectal cancer) support forum
Topic: Amplifying the Patient Voice
Replies: 1
Views: 1156

Amplifying the Patient Voice

Australians living with, or at risk of, young-onset bowel cancer often encounter obstacles in accessing timely referral and diagnosis. Furthermore, patients diagnosed with bowel cancer under age 50 face unique physical, emotional, and psychosocial challenges ranging from fertility issues, sexual dy...
by Maggie Nell
Mon Apr 12, 2021 1:06 pm
Forum: Colon Talk - Colon cancer (colorectal cancer) support forum
Topic: ***News Stories Thread*** ONGOING Updated >>> 2023 November <<<
Replies: 29
Views: 55765

Re: ***News Stories Thread*** ONGOING 2021

Lovely story about a 20 year survivor who lives in my neck of the woods. For years, Shelby Sherritt was known as the “cancer girl”. “All my friends were like ‘Oh, she’s going through treatments’ or ‘That’s the girl from high school that got cancer’,” she says. “For so long I thought that my narrativ...
by Maggie Nell
Tue Mar 30, 2021 1:49 pm
Forum: Colon Talk - Colon cancer (colorectal cancer) support forum
Topic: ***News Stories Thread*** ONGOING Updated >>> 2023 November <<<
Replies: 29
Views: 55765

Re: ***News Stories Thread*** ONGOING 2021

So when it comes to keeping people alive who gets all the credit? The heart . . . pump, pump, pump, pump. What else does it do? Nothing. I'll tell you what I do. I take the trash out . . . every day . . . sometimes twice. And what's the cherry on top of the crap sundae that's my life? https://www.yo...
by Maggie Nell
Fri Jan 22, 2021 5:19 am
Forum: Colon Talk - Colon cancer (colorectal cancer) support forum
Topic: Bowel issues worried about colon cancer?
Replies: 9
Views: 3306

Re: Bowel issues worried about colon cancer?

Hello everyone thought I would give an update I went to the doctors he did a rectal exam and found external hemorrhoids but nothing inside. I told him I was still concerned about the pencil thin stools and me have the feeling that I'm literally pushing to go? I guess he told me to try witch hazel f...
by Maggie Nell
Thu Dec 03, 2020 8:54 pm
Forum: Colon Talk - Colon cancer (colorectal cancer) support forum
Topic: Stage 4 in Australia.
Replies: 23
Views: 7244

Re: Stage 4 in Australia.

G'day Mark Another Aussie here. I recently moved from Melbourne (where I was diagnosed and had my surgery at Sandringham Hospital) into the Central Highlands of Victoria which brings with it new doctors and the whole she-bang. Have yet to check out B.R.I.C.C. Less choices here in one sense yet the f...
by Maggie Nell
Tue Nov 17, 2020 11:15 am
Forum: Colon Talk - Colon cancer (colorectal cancer) support forum
Topic: Gutsy - The Card Game
Replies: 0
Views: 8138

Gutsy - The Card Game

Each of us has a community of microbes that lives in our digestive system. Scientists call this community our gut microbiome. It plays many important roles in our bodies, like helping to digest food, regulating our immune system, preventing diseases, and even affecting our appetites and our emotion...
by Maggie Nell
Sun Nov 15, 2020 1:17 am
Forum: Colon Talk - Colon cancer (colorectal cancer) support forum
Topic: ***News Stories Thread*** ONGOING 2020
Replies: 22
Views: 20253

Re: ***News Stories Thread*** ONGOING 2020

Be the change you want to see in the world........ https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-11-15/terminally-ill-patient-sues-over-delayed-cancer-diagnosis/12876648 A statement of claim on behalf of Mr Whitehead has been lodged, alleging his treatment from both the Maryborough District Health Service and hi...
by Maggie Nell
Mon Nov 09, 2020 4:14 am
Forum: Colon Talk - Colon cancer (colorectal cancer) support forum
Topic: Apprehensive about round three tomorrow
Replies: 11
Views: 3253

Re: Apprehensive about round three tomorrow

Wishing you a gentle process for round three with no nasty surprises.
by Maggie Nell
Wed Nov 04, 2020 11:11 pm
Forum: Colon Talk - Colon cancer (colorectal cancer) support forum
Topic: I need to scream this out loud: "GoLYTELY IS OUT OF MY LIFE!"
Replies: 15
Views: 2768

Re: I need to scream this out loud: "GoLYTELY IS OUT OF MY LIFE!"

Wow! What do you think the odds are of living around the corner from a colonic irrigation office? I don't know. Do you think that is a sign that maybe you might consider switching from a heretic to believer naturopath? Like what if it is the key to ending your discomfort? :shock: Like, what if???? ...
by Maggie Nell
Tue Nov 03, 2020 11:42 pm
Forum: Colon Talk - Colon cancer (colorectal cancer) support forum
Topic: I need to scream this out loud: "GoLYTELY IS OUT OF MY LIFE!"
Replies: 15
Views: 2768

Re: I need to scream this out loud: "GoLYTELY IS OUT OF MY LIFE!"

Thanks for the link Green Tea, it is exactly what I was after. Five years ago, when I was scheduled for my first post-R. hemi colonoscopy at the Alfred Hospital in Melbourne, they sent me two pages of instructions. "You will need to buy PREP-KIT C from your local pharmacy (script not required)....
by Maggie Nell
Tue Nov 03, 2020 1:43 am
Forum: Colon Talk - Colon cancer (colorectal cancer) support forum
Topic: I need to scream this out loud: "GoLYTELY IS OUT OF MY LIFE!"
Replies: 15
Views: 2768

Re: I need to scream this out loud: "GoLYTELY IS OUT OF MY LIFE!"

With the preps, are they actually categorized based on how the patient presents? For example, the first time colonoscopy, no previous surgery, no resections: the colon is in showroom condition....like a virgin gets (insert name of prep)......through to the person whose colon has been greatly modifie...

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