Health: top to bottom

By Jennifer Morton
Updated June 17 2016 - 9:29pm, first published June 5 2016 - 12:00am

I grew up thinking that going to the toilet was shameful. When my 53-year-old sister Virginia told me that cancer had been discovered in her bowels and liver, I had flashbacks of my childhood shame. When she died, just five weeks later, I was sad, shocked and angry. Angry at my upbringing and angry at myself for being embarrassed about my bowels.

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