George's Story

I had never before any serious problems with my health until in May 1999 when I felt pangs in my stomach. For the first time in my life, I sought medical aid for myself. They found that there was a malignant tumour on my large intestine so big that it pushed on my bladder and made the pangs.

I was operated. That was a difficult operation. The two surgeons worked for four hours on me and they removed the tumour and the part of my bladder which was in contact with the tumour. During the four months after the operation I had a temporary Ileostomy stoma until September when I had it reversed.

I could not receive a full course of radiation and chemotherapy because my stomach perforated. I was rushed back into surgery to have my stomach operated on and the chemo and radiotherapy was stopped.

Then in August 2000, I was again operated on because the tumour was back and my large intestine was almost totally obstructed. My large tumour was partly removed and now I have permanent Colostomy stoma.

I have had much time to think between these operations and occasionally I was ready to die but now I feel good and I am happy that I have received a new life.

This is wonderful, Shaz, that there exists a place where we can converse.

My web site is: http://www16.brinkster.com/vardanyan22 (Sorry that it is partly under construction at the moment but everyone is very welcome to visit).
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Thank you and best regards.

George

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