When Paul Kelly received a bowel cancer screening test in the post, he was preoccupied with his 60th birthday celebrations. He put the package in a drawer and thought he'd get back to it, but never did.
Two years later, he received a second routine test and immediately carried it out and sent it off, having realised what he'd done the first time around. Devastatingly, results showed the dad-of-two had stage three bowel cancer.
This Bowel Cancer Awareness Month, Paul, 64, who underwent surgery to remove his cancer, hopes to encourage others to never miss taking the potentially life-saving test after feeling like 'an idiot'.
