The musician Jordan Brunolimember of the Australian Band Bugs, He never came to imagine that at 29 he had to face a devastating colon cancer diagnosis that has him fighting for his life.
After receiving the news that he had incurable cancer in stage 4, Brunoli wants his story to be transformed into inspiration for other young people to pay attention to their health and make regular medical check -ups that can detect anomalies in time.
“I thought it was very young, but recently there is an increase in cases of colon cancer in people under 30,” he recently shared in an emotional written in which he details his battle against the disease. “A diagnosis can make a difference in a tumor in one or in a four metastasis state,” he added.
As reported by the Mayo Clinic through its online site, this type of condition is much more frequent in patients over 50 years, but it is possible that a person can develop this disease at any age. Common symptoms that indicate alert signals include changes in intestinal habits, stool with blood, persistent abdominal pain, fatigue and weight loss without proposing it.
After the difficult diagnosis that completely changed his life, his friends Brock Weston And Connor Brooker created a page on the digital platform GOFUNDMEin which followers and the general public can make donations to financially help Jordan.
Help Jordan Fight Cancer/Gofundme
“Cancer has aggressively expanded to its liver and lymph nodes. This incapacitates it to work in a predictable future. Two weeks ago it was admitted to the hospital and underwent a delicate surgery; they removed tumors of the intestine and lymph nodes, which resulted in the installation of a stoma,” reads part of the text written on the donation page.
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Although the bassist has tried to find a new sense of normality amid the fight against cancer, he has also revealed that he still has a hard time facing his new reality, which includes having a permanent opening in his abdominal wall and by which he eliminates his feces.
Of course, music continues to be a fundamental part of its daily life and in this crucial stage of its life it has become its “happy therapeutic place”, as he indicates.