She was diagnosed in February 2021 with squamous cell carcinoma of the rectum, a rare malignancy.
“Cancer was the last thing on my mind because I’d recently had a normal colonoscopy,” said Shaw-James, 70, a retired high-risk obstetrics nurse. “It was shocking to get such a serious diagnosis.”
“I knew that he really wanted to travel, and I didn’t want him to be stuck dealing with my cancer,” she said. “I didn’t think that would be fair to him.”“I told her, ‘No, I’m not going anywhere,'” said James, who had been married once before. “I wanted to be there to support her through it, no matter how long it took.”
“Within 48 hours, they’d figured out I had Stage 3 cancer and they’d developed a treatment plan,” she said. “The entire team jumped in to help, and I jumped with them.” “Dr. Holliday shared stories about her four children, and I shared stories about my five grandchildren,” Shaw-James said. “We bonded through that and my trust in her continued to build.”
Shaw-James’s chemotherapy treatments did not cause hair loss, she said, but she experienced nausea, fatigue and bouts of vertigo. At her next appointment in June 2021, Shaw-James said she was declared cancer-free. She still has tests and a check-in every six months.“How could I say no?'” Shaw-James said. “He’d been by my side every minute.”
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