Living with cancer during Covid: "My chance of living is less than 8%" | Times Reports
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- Mum-of-two Deborah James describes what it's like to live with metastatic bowel cancer during the Covid-19 pandemic.
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This woman is amazing and a true warrior.
Bless her for calling out the consequences and impacts of covid on cancer treatment.
I would change "didn't get those symptoms checked out" to "unable to get those symptoms checked out" due to lack of gp care and resources
I have just become acquainted with this beautiful woman’s story and career and I must say, she is one AMAZING human being!!!! May God embrace you in heaven and comfort your loved ones here on earth.
I think it is an absolute disgrace that anybody had to face hospital appointments alone, some hospitals are still enforcing this cruel and unnecessary policy. It should be made illegal.
The whole "covid" situation has been illegal. "Lockdowns" are inhumane, criminal and downright disgusting. The suffering and damage caused is off the charts.
I agree
I had cancer surgery and my kidney removed last year. It was horrific. I had to say goodbye to my little girl and go through it all myself. No visitors for five days. Why they are making people do that even now is awful. Wouldnt wish it on anyone
Hi, I spent ten days in hospital during the pandemic, with an emergency admission to a ward, with massive urine retention and then sepsis, and came home with an indwelling catheter. No visitors then, or for a subsequent hospital stay. And I don't agree. I think that staff and patients needed to be protected from Covid, and the spread had to be stopped.
@@matt76716 They were killing people off in the hospitals and care homes with Midazolam and forced "Do Not Resuscitate" orders (The drug used in the USA was called Remdesivir.) I recommend people research it. For example, Fauci knew before 2020, from studies, that Remdesivir can cause kidney failure, pulmonary edema and septic shock. Yet not only did he authorise its use to fight "covid", he banned all other therapeutic treatments. The terrible scenes witnessed in the hospitals were not because of a new killer virus, but because of the drugs being administered to patients.
You truly deserve your Damehood Deborah,you will leave behind a wonderful legacy.lt is people like you and Sir Tom that make the world a better place.
She passed away today.. june 28/2022. Never knew a woman so strong like that… shine bright little star. 🖤✨
Thanks for the updates, so sad….
A good friend of mine died recently couldn't get an appointment during covid was in lockdown and waited till everything opened up he didn't want to be a pain when the nhs was under pressure. He had symptoms and waited died 6mths after diagnosis. Can't blame anyone but must learn from this. Deborah your a hero and your legacy will live on in the lives you saved. X
NHS must learn a lot and improve access to diagnostics to EVERYONE who has got ANY symptoms related to digestive system. Access to diagnostics is extremely restricted and far behind with European standards! Deborah lived 5 years because she paid for colonoscopy herself since the doctors laughed at her she might have a bowel cancer. Colonoscopy is nearly never offered in the UK and that's the ONLY test to exclude or confirm colon cancer. Other tests are useless. Blood test, FIT, per rectum tests... they all can be fine and you still might have the colon cancer (that was the case of my uncle, he just went to do the colonoscopy because his daughter advised him to get checked). No symptom should be ignored and the colonoscopy which is done early can PREVENT cancer. If there is a polyp it is cut out so it does not turn into cancer. The cancer does not appear from nowhere. It takes years for a lesion like a polyp to transform into cancer. NHS focuses more on cancer treament once you have the late stage of colon cancer (when your blood test is really bad and you have a low level of iron), not to prevent it.
Thanks for sharing there is good advice there with bowel cancer it's information like this that saves lives. 👍👍
Covid over cancer these days. I think it’s disgusting
this brave lady blows my mind she's a real credit to our world for sure ❤x
RIP Deborah your an inspiration to everyone. You fought hard and did well.
I had only heard of her about a month ago. Wasn’t known in Canada
What an Inspirational brave lady, Im really sad for her and hope she gets as much time as is humanly possible for her so she can make as many memories as possible for her kids and loved ones xx
Life can be so cruel sometimes.
I love her! She’s amazing
Praying for you and your family. You are incredibly strong.
She's fortunate that she had the clout and resources to actually get therapy for as long as she did. How many don't even get that opportunity, that's the real sadness.
RIP Deborah - you fought so hard, and you helped so many. Well done Dame Deborah! xx
I can't be like this bold and amazing woman. She is such an inspiration.
RIP beautiful lady. You lived your life well
God bless you beautiful girl a brave kind lady who did her job on earth to the highest 🙏 ❤
Rest in peace my darling such a brave lady
Amazing human 🥺
Time is precious.
Rest in peace Deborah James you're such a beautiful woman and you're a beautiful angel❤
What a special woman and she has one great aura her personality is so infectious. Shes the friend you wish to have💖 God bless her family🙏
I also just lost my mum to cancer she was a year older then debrorah less than a month after her diagnoses she was gone always appreciate what u have people u never know when your loose that loved one
An angel who walked this earth...your legacy will live on forever xx
Dame Deborah you are an Angel
Rest in peace Deborah ❤
How did she remain so positive
Love her voice what a lovely woman she was
Absolutely heartbreaking.
She is always so positive. I’m in Canada and only heard of her a month or more back
Sadly she has passed away. She was such an amazing lady.
@@MT-yo9ex she died on my birthday
@@borispugmomdelyth6244 So sad. Hope you had a lovely birthday
its just been announced that she has passed away. rest easy deborah.
She's gorgeous..and so brave ❤👍👍🙏
Disgusting that cancer diagnosis were delayed when early diagnosis is imperative
Rip, sweet Deborah. ❤️
You are such a positive bowel babe ! Your amazing , ❤️❤️❤️
Wow you are just amazing and a beautiful person ❤️
You are a beautiful angel❤
Another great person gone and its useless saying why? I give up its more and more good people that pass away
She’s such a lovely and brave lady.
Mi fa rabbia pensare a quanto denaro si utilizzi per le armi invece di destinarlo tutto alla ricerca e alle cure.
Amazing ladyx
I know it may seem glim but declare your healing in Jesus name and believe you are healed! The doctors don’t know everything! All the power is in Gods hands. God bless you, I will be praying for your healing
Rip🖤
Angels 💎💎💎🕊🕊🕊✝️✝️✝️🌹🌹🌹🦋🦋🦋🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽👑👑👑
So very sad
I wish we had assisted death animals have more dignity than humans do they can get put down we have to suffer.
Deborah wanted to live more than anything .....
Deborah seems lovely
she looks great for stage 4. amazing
Why is how she looks... so important! Cancer is debilitating and can be disfiguring to some people! YOUR COMMENT IS SHAMEFUL!!
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I love this woman but she is obviously well.off and I tend to feel for people suffering from this with very little money which is extra hard.
You think her fear is any less? Her physical pain any less? You don't think she would trade all her lovely belongings to watch her children reach adulthood or live to collect her Old Age Pension?
I thought the exact same. She is very well to do and her beautiful big garden that she is spending her last days in looks like such an oasis. She is blessed in that respect but without her life she cannot enjoy any of it. I think her house is in Barnes in London which is a very affluent area so she has been able to be ill in comfort/luxury and not a crummy studio flat with no money. The financial freedom in which she has lived will also of helped her to have the possibility of producing podcasts, having equipment etc and gaining media contacts amongst ppl within her class. She’s used it to her best ability though and raised millions for cancer research and she seems such a lovely lady. It is incredibly sad that she leaves behind her son and daughter and husband and her mum so young. Cancer is so scary in that sense that it does not discriminate and will come for one in two of us 😳 no matter our life situation beforehand 😣
@@katcampbell9213 agree you can't buy your health.
@@annalucinda8273 did not say her pain is any different to a poor person they are your words not mine .I meant that money makes her situation more bearable in luxury surroundings and her family will want for nothing financially which some people won't experience in their illness. Money can't buy health obviously but I'm sure terminally ill people would love for their loved ones to be financially taken care off when they pass which isn't always the case.
Oh my god , I can't believe , You are calling a dying person privileged . She is not suffering any less .. You are no one to compare her suffering with anyone else .
If you recite the following prayer 400 or 2000 times, all your illnesses will be cured by the grace of Allah (all glory and praise be to Him).
"O Allah, send prayers, peace and blessings upon our Master Muhammad, the medicine of hearts and their treatment, the soundness of bodies and their cure, the light of vision and its illumination, the spirit of all spirits and the secret of their endurance."
Hi pretty
Certainly hope she didn't take the jab with having cancer already.
She said in the video she's had the jab. A lot more instances of cancer are occurring after people having the jabs.
@@charlottetaylor4471 🙄🙄 what a load of drivel. Absolute rubbish.
@@charlottetaylor4471 the jabs can cause skipped periods too
@@charlottetaylor4471 I think the same
Eat raw veges cooked mushrooms and onions ! According to Dr joel Furnham