To think something is off here?

Who knows? I do know someone with a similar diagnosis, they are now desperately ill and will not survive. It is heartbreaking.

I managed a flaky colleague for years who took endless time off for crises with her mother, who was living with her and had dementia.

Years later she was in the paper for a criminal act and it transpired that her mother was a young independent woman. Her entire work persona was a lie. You just never know!

Tbf plenty of people are posting scenarios that are more much further away from the OPs scenario than your example!

I’ve known several with this awful diagnosis- and all had very obvious signs that all was not well - I think OP work on the basis she is telling the truth because as someone else said I would rather be a mug than cause issues for anyone who might just be telling the truth -

@MuddlingThroughLife I’m so very sorry , that just made me cry . It must totally boil your piss when you read story’s about why anyone would fake such a thing

Weirdly people do lie about this kind of thing. I have a relative through marriage who has claimed to have terminal lung cancer for about 6 years – every Christmas she insists that all grandchildren need to spend the day with her (rather than alternating with the other side of the family) because it will "be her last Christmas". (Most people with terminal lung cancer have months to live, not years). She claims she goes to hospital for treatment but no one can confirm this, and she has shown no signs of the illness or any signs of treatment and regularly gets outrageously drunk at family events. It's quite bizarre although no one would ever say anything to her about it.

I think a lot of people don’t realise what a glioblastoma diagnosis is. It really is not the sort of cancer where you look fine and just get on with your life. This woman has already defied the odds massively by surviving more than one year. It’s really almost unheard of. Everyone I know who had this horrible diagnosis was dead within 18 months and had steroid and other treatment that caused quite a drastic change in appearance.

The point I was badly trying to make was; people may look ok or act ok, but actually might very much not be.
Or even can be getting on with their life with an awful diagnosis.

Ok sorry! 🤣

What are you getting from questioning this persons diagnosis? I think it says a lot about your character to even consider posting this.

Heard about that, some people are really twisted but it is quite rare

Did she have scars/shaved head?

I mean you can never call someone out, but this kind of thing does happen. The podcast Scamanda is also now a doc on Disney+ and it's crazy.

There's a YouTuber I know who has glioblasoma. He was diagnosed pretty young in his mid-20s after having headaches. He had surgery and then a year's chemotherapy to follow that up. A whole year, during which time he felt absolutely dreadful after each bout of chemo and put on a lot of weight due to being on steroids. After that, his tumour was checked every few months by MRI to see if it was growing (they'd not been able to remove it all). For awhile it stayed as it was and he was able to resume a fairly normal life again, but then a scan revealed that it was growing again. He had the option of another surgery which he took and is now on chemo again for another year, and again is suffering from chemo treatment whilst bravely carrying on his work from home. He was told originally it'll be fatal eventually (5 yrs to live optimistically) and that's still the case, but the chemo's not as effective this time round. It's terribly sad. I don't see how someone could just say they went from having an operation to being perfectly fine a few days later, even if all the tumour was removed, chances are she'd still have chemo to be sure all the cells were gone.

I know someone with a Glioblastoma who is still reasonably well and working 1 year after diagnosis and surgery (they are classified as terminal).
Didn't lose all their hair in chemo. Did have obvious scars & shaved areas of hair from the surgery.
Basically the treatment is operation and then chemo/radiation to try to kill all the cells before it inevitably grows back (and it always does). After the initial treatment it's not unrealistic than your colleague could look and feel ok.
Back to work after 10 days does sound odd though, unless the tumour was very easy to access and recovery was minimal.

I tend to agree with this. So sorry about your brother, I know it’s an exceptionally cruel cancer 💐

This is really difficult but you can’t say anything. I know two people who have had glioblastoma. Two young, fit and otherwise very healthy individuals. Both were dead within a year despite surgery and active treatments. It’s an aggressive and incurable cancer. There is one article I read on a “super survivors” report of a woman who had it and has, five years on, no recurrence of her tumour but she really is an outlier. This was to do with research about how a few people can survive cancers that would otherwise kill the rest of us.

The people I know declined extremely rapidly and did not look like the same people they were before. They both also became very much disabled physically. On that basis, I’d feel doubtful for sure, but she may just be one of the very small percentage of lucky ones.

Not everyone will lose their hair, but those that do will lose all of their hair, including body hair, eyebrows, & eyelashes.

My Dr who was terminally ill with cancer looked a picture of health. I only found out just before she died, & I felt awful as she’d supported me for years with it. At least it stopped me moaning about it.

That on Netflix wasn’t the comedy about the boy who was wrongfully diagnosed with cancer was it? He enjoyed all the attention so much that him & his Dr kept up the pretence.

My brother died of this. If she has survived beyond 3 years that is incredible, but it’s impossible for her to be functioning as you describe at this stage unless she is a medical miracle.

So nothing at all like the situation in the OP then…..

This in spades.

I wouldn’t question it somebody would have to be pretty awful to make up something like that.

They are rare but it made me think of a local school secretary who faked cancer. The whole school rallied around her and fundraiser for her medical costs. Turns out she was just a criminal at heart and had been defrauding the school of other money as well.

I wonder if she ever got sentenced and served time.

Non cancerous but yeah under general anaesthetic. She couldn’t drive but wanted to be there for her son. She didn’t look good mind you, she’s much better now 😊

If this colleague is working freelance, she may be self-employed.

Yeah, you can’t bring it up as you will come across really badly so you may as well put it out of your mind
The cases of people lying about cancer are pretty rare I think so hopefully she isn’t lying otherwise it would be completely warped