A “healthy” woman with terminal colon cancer warns against an unexpected symptom

The 57-year-old special education teacher from England found “efficient and healthy” by the people around her, it is recommended to receive care after the end of life after diagnosing the colon cancer in stage 4. What makes her history even disturbing is that her only warning sign was the unusual symptom that most people would not associate with cancer.

Although a breakthrough diagnosis was a sudden blow to Karen Kennerley of Lancashire in England, it is determined to fight the disease and raise people’s awareness about the little -known signs of colorectal cancer.

Colorectal cancer usually occurs with digestive changes, such as persistent diarrhea, constipation, blood in the feces, rectal bleeding, abdominal pain or bloating. But Kennerley didn’t have any of these characters. Everything she felt before her destructive diagnosis was a symptom that had nothing to do with her intestine.

“It is terrifying that I had no symptoms except a little fatigue,” she he said. However, the mother of three children who worked at a small school for children in special education thought it was just a exhaustion of work.

“I went to my family doctor who conducted blood tests and directed me to a functional test, and then I directed to colonoscopy in January 2023. Everyone told me that I was functional and healthy, that there was nothing to worry about, but they conducted tests to exclude everything,” she recalled.

During routine colonoscopy, the doctors found a seemingly harmless tumor, but their suspicions increased, and the biopsy soon confirmed the worst: she was Rakowa. In June 2023, she underwent surgery to remove the tumor along with part of its large intestine, followed by eight exhausting rounds of chemotherapy.

Although it was initially thought that her cancer was in remission, she was hospitalized in March 2024 with suspicion of appendicitis. However, the scans revealed a destructive phrase, her cancer moved to stage 4 and spread to the ovaries. Then the doctors advised her to receive palliative cancer treatment offered by NHS.

However, Kennerley is now determined to fight because she hopes to receive cancer treatment in Germany that promise her best chance of survival. Collects money fund Her treatment.

“People with cancer at the fourth stage feel completely abandoned, I want to change it not only for me, but for everyone,” she added.