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My name's Thomas Hunt, and at 27
I was diagnosed with colon cancer. Like a lot 27-year-olds, I was very much
enjoying my life as much as I could. I first thought something was wrong
after we'd got back from a trip and I thought that I'd
contracted some sort of stomach bug. I had a tumour
in my colon that split the colon. I couldn't
tell my family
It's too much with just trying to deal with it let alone trying to kind of explain it to
people that obviously care about you the most
I was in every two weeks for chemo,
it attacked my nervous system so I lost a lot of feeling in my hands and feet,
I lost a lot of taste in my mouth, I was vomiting a lot
in my lost courses. You become quite isolated
very quickly.
The chemotherapy unit is directly underneath the
Macmillan Mustard Tree Center. You walk in on the level when you register for chemo
and you're like oh my god I'm back here again
but then literally just to stairs walk up you're in the Macmillan center
and it was fantastic I loved it.
Hello my love, how are you? You're waving your little flag saying
I'm in desperate need of some help here
and they come with that very baseline of
yes that's exactly what we're here to do. I used to come and
see you guys here and have a cuppa tea and it would be one of the few times that
you come into the hospital and its not a reason
that's a bad one. For us you are a person
not a patient. That's how I think the center is different to
anywhere else in the hospital environment that you come across. The added things
that Macmillan help out with, the grants etc was the only
thing that really kinda kept my head above water. The world
actually realies on
organisations like Macmillan to be able to take bad things
and create some good out of it