Only when she thought that life could not become more busy, the mother of New Jersey Six Elaine Griffin was diagnosed with colon cancer in the 2B phase.
“I was very shocked and I think the doctors were also because they usually don’t touch someone in the mid -40s,” Griffin Post told him.
Colorectal cancer is growing among people under 50 – a trend that is a worrying doctor. Griffin was 44 years old when doctors discovered that a 4.3 -centimeter tumor was broken through the wall of its sigmoid inch, the large intestinal part related to the rectum.
Hamilton Square resident underwent surgery and chemotherapy before being announced without cancer in September 2024.
With Mars being the month of consciousness of colorectal cancer, Griffin is sharing its history in the hope of inspiring others to enroll in a colonoscopy, which is the most effective way to diagnose colon cancer.
“One of the things I did was a kind of begging for my life,” Griffin recalled. “I pray to the Lord and I said,” You know. If you just let me live, I will do everything I can to make sure other people have this information. “”
Griffin, who had no history of colon cancer in her family, reveals the four main signs that pushed her to follow medical help in the spring of 2024.
‘Glass passing through my intestines’
“The Scary Thing” for Griffin was that her symptoms would come in the waves. In the fall of 2023, she noticed some food intolerance. It seemed as if she had a gluten allergy, though she didn’t have one.
Griffin documented her digestive problems in a notebook to see a particular issue caused by food.
She has always been intended for her diet because she was born without gallbladder, and her supplement was removed in 1993. Oil processing has been a war for 30 years.
“It was one of those things where I knew something was happening, but I saw nothing more than,” Ok, maybe just getting old, “said Griffin, who would turn 46 in July.
After experiencing what “felt like the glass passing through my intestines” several times after morning, she eliminated milk from her diet, then bread, pasta and grains.
Heavy jump continued even when eating raw food and meat.
Unintentional loss
In January 2024, Griffin lost 20 pounds.
“I was not practicing or trying to consciously lose weight,” she recognized. “I started accompanying the food with pain.”
Griffin’s symptoms increased between January and March 2024, and she underwent testing at RwjBarnabas Health.
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“My normal speed is quite fast,” said Griffin, Associate Director of the Research Office at the Rutgers School of Environmental and Biological Sciences.
Griffin has three biological girls and three stepmother. Their age varies from 10 to 32.
“I started to feel more exhausted doing very normal things – climbing a flight of stairs, walking through a hallway, things that would never cause any stress,” she said.
Blood on the bench
An impermeable symptom griffin could not rest was the blood on her bench.
“I often experienced with strong and unexpected abdominal paint. My belly was swollen,” described Griffin. “It was very difficult to sit down, stay and use the bathroom. I began to notice blood with each bowel movement.”
Her point was narrow, what is known as “thin pencil stool”, and she did not feel using the bathroom.
Colonoscopy
Griffin’s fear was confirmed when doctors could not end her colonoscopy – the tumor was preventing her inch.
It was diagnosed in April 2024 with colon cancer in phase 2B, which means its cancer had spread beyond its colon wall, but not in the lymph nodes or remote organs.
“If she had been delayed to seek medical attention, she would have quickly developed full obstacles of the colon and would seek reset with colostomy (which would have finally been reversible),” Dr. Charles Eisengart, Griffin’s surgeon at Robert Wood Johnson Hamilton University Hospital, told The Post.
Eisengart removed the lower part of her sigmoid intestine to get rid of her body from the tumor. Griffin did not need a colostomy bag to collect her waste, but she required chemotherapy.
She made oral chemotherapy and infusion and was announced without cancer after doctors completed her colonoscopy in September.
“I tried to live as a normal life as I could – even in chemistry,” Griffin said. “I miss some things, but not too much.
Looking forward
If Griffin was not busy enough, she launched a campaign to get 2,000 people to enroll in colonoscopy until April.
More than 1,400 people have completed their performances-100 more planned by mid-May.
Griffin said the cancer was discovered in two people through the movement. A family friend was diagnosed with 2nd stage cancer, and a person in Europe was determined to have gastric cancer at an early stage.
Instructions suggest that people at average risk of colon cancer that begin to be examined in 45 – those with a family history may have to start earlier and be tested more often. Early detection is essential because it means it improves treatment results and survival levels.
“The tumor I had actually brought out had grown over 10 years,” Griffin noted. “I had no data, and that is why colonoscopies are really important. I just knew something was changing, but I was no more.”
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