Thanks for the welcome onetrack. I have so far come out of it okay but I do have a colostomy bag for the rest of my life, but I am okay with that. The good news is I don’t have to dig holes to have a crap when I go camping.
My symptoms were some blood and sudden urges to go to the toilet but can’t actually go. That would happen around 15 times a day. I put it down to haemorrhoids for so long. I also don’t have anyone in my family that has had bowel cancer, but it has to start somewhere.