2022: Not Covid, Just Cancer

J.R. Sonder
5 min readJan 30, 2023

I thought the blood was from stress

Photo by Diana Polekhina on Unsplash

I first noticed blood in my stool at the end of 2021 and dismissed it as stress. Mid-2022, the blood appeared a couple more times, weight wasn’t being lost and my Iron was at an 8.

When I met the doctor who would perform my first colonoscopy, he said we would only be doing it as a precaution. He laughed, I do a thousand of these a year and only 10 have…

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J.R. Sonder

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