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A Man Was Given A Cancer Diagnosis Months After Medical Professionals Ignored His Symptoms, Claiming He Was “Too Young”
Ashley Robinson started having stomach problems a few months before his wedding, but he was fired from his doctor after bringing up the concerns.
When physicians finally paid attention to his wife’s fervent request to see him, the 35-year-old was informed that he had stage four bowel cancer that had spread to his liver and an orange-sized tumor in his colon. He had also astonishingly dropped 26 pounds in just seven days.
Robinson married his partner Jasmin in July of last year, but the planning was difficult because he was working 60-hour weeks as a chef to help pay for the wedding.
The Brit had started passing ‘quite a lot of blood’ in his bowel movements two months earlier.
“In June, it started getting worse, and I rang my GP but they said that it wasn’t serious, told me not to worry and that it would pass in a week or so,” Robinson, of Dacorum in Hertfordshire, said.
“I told them that it had already been going on for a month but they just said to leave it another week.”
He assumed it was just stress, and he acknowledged that if he hadn’t had so much going on in his life, he probably would have taken the experience more seriously.
Robinson continued: “It got really bad and I passed the most insane amount of blood so I phoned my GP and they told me to go to A&E [the UK version of the ER] straight away.”
“When I saw the doctor I mentioned to him that my great nan had died of colon cancer but he said there was no chance and that I was too young.”
“I went home with medication and took that for two weeks but nothing changed.”
He added that every medical specialist he had visited had assured him that he “definitely didn’t have cancer,” so he decided to put it out of his mind and deal with it later, especially since his bachelor party was approaching.
“They were saying ‘you’re fine, don’t worry, go and get married’ so I took their word for it,” Robinson stated.
He wanted to know exactly what was wrong with him after their wedding because he had lost 26 pounds in a short time.
“I went back to my GP. I rang them three or four times and they wouldn’t see me. They said there was nothing wrong with me or that it was just piles,” Robinson shared.
“My wife went down there while I was at work. She stormed in there and forced them to see me.”
“They got me in but my GP said they still didn’t think I had cancer, but they put me forward for a colonoscopy. That’s when they found a tumour the size of an orange in my colon.”
He continued: “I was dreading getting the [biopsy] results back. I was told I had stage 4 colon cancer, which had spread to my liver. It was the worst news possible.”
“It’s so hard to put into words the hammer blow, it absolutely crushed my wife. Aside from it happening to her, it was the worst possible news I ever could have had.”
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