A mother of two has disclosed the typical symptom that she disregarded before receiving a stage four cancer diagnosis.
Four months after she started exhibiting mild symptoms, Susan Schmidt was diagnosed with colon cancer in September 2023, at the age of 45.
“The diagnosis is incurable,” she told the Daily Mail. “The plan is to stay well for as long as I can. I’ll likely go back on chemo after my next trip overseas.”
The 47-year-old now wants to dismantle barriers by encouraging people to be open about the symptoms they’re having, particularly those related to bowel movements, which are somewhat of a taboo topic in contemporary society.