'I never thought something was wrong with me... within weeks I felt like I was on death row'
manchestereveningnews.co.ukA super-fit GMP officer who thought she was 'bunged up' was horrified when her constipation turned out to be bowel cancer. Stacey Rigby, from Wigan, noticed she hadn't had a bowel movement for four days and believed eating eggs every morning as part of a new high-protein diet and exercise regime was the cause.
When she was finally able to 'go', she noticed a pale pink stain on the toilet roll and, thinking it was due to straining on loo, thought no more of it.
But Stacey's concerned wife, Jamie Middleton, urged her to visit the GP if it happened again and this, coupled with Dame Deborah James' widely-publicised cancer battle, encouraged her to book an appointment.
The 41-year-old's doctor performed an examination, asked her to give stool samples for further investigation and booked her in for a colonoscopy. READ MORE: 'They are going to f***ing kill my husband...they have my son, they are going to kill him.
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