Bowelbabe

[King Kareoke]

Deborah James, host of Big C podcast, honoured with damehood

The podcast host has raised more than £3.7m since announcing she had stopped having cancer treatment.

www.bbc.co.uk

Can I just say as a survivor of Bowel Cancer that Deborah James has been such an inspiration and I know how lucky I have been - I have seen my girls grow up - she won't see her family grow

If you watch her last interview it is an incredibly difficult watch and extremely sad - but she has approached her illness with amazing positivity

The fund has raised an incredible amount of money

Well done and well deserved for her efforts

 

[AB22 Easy Tiger]

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Bowelbabe Fund for Cancer Research UK, raising money to fund clinical trials and research into personalised medicine for cancer patients and supporting campaigns to raise awareness of bowel cancer.

www.bowelbabe.org

 

[SuperMarcoRowell]

This is an incredible woman. Brave, happy, beautiful inside and out, funny, truly inspirational. Never was an award more fully deserved.

When the time comes for her to leave this life she should be celebrated as an example for us all how to live our lives.

 

[PTID]

Hadn't previously heard of her, but she comes across as a seriously nice person. Fair play and respect to her for what she is doing and how she is dealing with this.

 

[Keawyeds]

Goodness me... Nearly £4.5M
Incredible.
A very brave woman. Cancer is a total kernt.

 

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Naga Munchetty was sobbing like a baby reading out her message about going into palliative care the other day. I hadn't heard of Deborah James up to that point put apparently gained a massive following from her podcast. Brought back memories of Hazey and Foggy who shared stories of their battles with cancer - bless them all.

 

[Keawyeds]

Can I just say as a survivor of Bowel Cancer that Deborah James has been such an inspiration and I know how lucky I have been - I have seen my girls grow up - she won't see her family grow

+1 survivor's guilt here.

 

[Stray Cat]

She’s an amazing woman.

 

[Hawkings Boots]

Wish the Mrs would clean this house better. The dust in this house watching that interview...

 

[Arkle]

Naga Munchetty was sobbing like a baby reading out her message about going into palliative care the other day. I hadn't heard of Deborah James up to that point put apparently gained a massive following from her podcast. Brought back memories of Hazey and Foggy who shared stories of their battles with cancer - bless them all.

The podcast was/is exceptional - Deborah James, Rachael Bland (who died maybe 3 years ago) and Lauren Mahon, who has been on the BBC a lot today paying tribute to Deborah James.

 

[EDGE]

Don't know what I would do in her situation. It terrifies me.

 

[Top of Teesdale]

Nice to see her smiling as Prince William visits her at home.

 

[Helvellyn]

A lightning rod of positivity & inspiration, it brought tears to my eyes reading her last interview in The Times earlier this week. What a legacy, yet so sad.

 

[mysticmackem]

+1 survivor's guilt here.

+another (twice) here

 

[Forrest Gump]

Brave lady, I suffer ulcerative colitis and a lot of the symptoms are similar.

If in doubt
Get checked out

 

[Ciro_DiMarzio]

Well done to that lady. A great achievement. Glad she has the chance to bow out in style and her family will have some positive memories of the time.

 

[look out piano]

Don't know what I would do in her situation. It terrifies me.

I've seen it happen in real life, it's horrifying. My brother was diagnosed in the January of 2012, he died November 2012 after countless operations and chemo.
Watching him die broke my heart, I've never gotten over it and I cried seeing Deborah on the TV the other day.
I am in awe of her bravery, in awe of her battle, in awe of her fundraising, in awe of her humility but I know what is to come and it's upsetting to think about.
Cancer is a ****, I have a genetic mutation (lynch syndrome) which makes me very high risk for colon cancer, I feel like I'm a ticking time bomb

 

[AB22 Easy Tiger]

Deborah James grateful for ‘surreal, mind-blowing’ few days as cancer donations hit £5.7m

Podcast host praises generosity of public and tells of delight at being made a dame

www.theguardian.com

 

[Twisted]

+1 survivor's guilt here.

Nope. That's not ok. Inspired to do better things with your life? For sure.

But don't ever feel guilty for still having it