Cancer Pathway!? ! ….

I just wanted to share um my experience of um being on a cancer pathway, which is what it's called, um, at the moment. Uh, so I went to my GP after, um, watching a webinar actually about screening and um it made me realise that I had probably. Um, got something that I needed to get checked out. So, um, I had a lump in my neck, um, like, which the doctor described as a, um, mass, um, and straight away she was really good at, um, getting me on what they call the cancer pathway, but for me, as soon as I heard that word, cancer, um, having had both my parents die of cancer

Um, I did what they tell you not to do and googled my symptoms and the things that were happening with me. Um, I also lost my voice, um, and, um, yeah, looked at different things. One of the big things that came up was, um, the fact that, um, people who work with wood, um, were more likely to get things like esophageal cancer and certain brain cancers

Um, brain tumours. My mum died of a brain tumour, so that was the first thing that sprung into my mind, and I went into panic mode. Um, I convinced myself, looked at every piece of Google information there was, and convinced myself that I was gonna die, basically

So I started, um, planning, um, we were already in the process of doing our wills and powers of attorneys, so we ramped that up and got that, um, Secured and in place, um, when you're on a what they call a cancer pathway, which I don't really agree with them calling that, um, because straight away you think you are going to have cancer, and obviously it doesn't mean that, it means that you're on that um sort of Quickened process to make sure that you're seen within a certain time period, which I think is 2 weeks, but that 2 weeks seems like a lifetime when you're waiting to hear for appointments and various things. Um, once the first appointment has been um had, so to speak, so that came just within a fortnight, just short of a fortnight. Um, then they've obviously, as far as I can understand it, have fulfilled their obligation to see you within that fortnight, and appointments after that were very slow, and um, I don't think I would take them seriously, um, and I were quite dismissed by certain, um, professionals, shall we say, but um I am quite um a strong person

And I did ask questions and I did question the things that they were, um, saying and doing. Um, thankfully, my diagnosis, uh, was that I didn't have anything sinister, which was reassuring. Um, I, um, as a result of that, I knew a lady who is a nutritionalist, she specialises in grief nutrition

And she asked, could she work with me, um, as a, uh, sort of a, um, pilot, not pilot, I can't think of the word, um, like a test case. So she looked at all my symptoms and I've been working with her to look at nutritional things that can help with my thyroid and my sort of throat area, which has been very helpful and very beneficial. Um, so yeah, that's my story and my most recent experience

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