I remember it like it was yesterday. Sean came home from his appointment with a gastroenterologist and said to me, “he thinks I’m too young to have colon cancer so he won’t do a colonoscopy on me.” Well, I have learned that you are NEVER too young to have anything checked out.
I never thought that I would want to blog and write about something. This is such a personal experience but, I learned so much about this terrible disease over the last five years and I know that Sean would want me to share our experience so that others will never have to go through some of the mistakes or coulda’s, woulda’s or shoulda’s. Here is a warning: I do not want to hide any of the truth of symptoms of procedures. This may be too much for some people to handle or it might feel “graphic” so this is your heads-up. For the time being, I will change the names of some of the people to protect their identities but maybe later, the truth will come out.
Starting around 2015, Sean was having some gastric issues. He would be in a bathroom for an extended amount of time or even after eating something, it would set him off. I didn’t think too much of it because this was a strangely common behavior of his. I use to joke with him when we would go out to dinner that I felt like I was having dinner for one and while I knew he felt guilty constantly doing that to me, we really didn’t think about it much more than he had to go to the bathroom or his stomach was sensitive to certain foods.
He had gone to see a primary care physician that was a part of his insurance network at the time. During this visit, they spoke in detail about the issues and symptoms that Sean was having including blood in his stool. This primary care physician had referred Sean to the gastroenterologist so it was thought that he was a good doctor. Well, what we learned later on ended up costing Sean a lot more than a health insurance co-pay; this ultimately cost him his life.
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