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By JAN LAVALLEY
Rappahannock News Staff Writer
“When they tell you — ‘You have cancer’ — the first thing you do is deny it to yourself,” said Libby Wharton, cancer survivor. “And, no one can imagine how it feels. After the denial, you go into shock and then comes acceptance. I don’t know when I accepted it.”
Libby, a resident of Flint Hill, was diagnosed with colon cancer in January 1987, after stomach pains sent her to the doctor.
“The cancer was as big as an orange they said. They removed it and part of my colon but they also found the cancer had spread already and was in my liver,” she said. “It was pretty bad.”
The doctor told her there was nothing that could be done and that she had three to six months to live. Libby went to another doctor.
“I changed doctors and went to see Dr. Elizabeth Simms in Loudoun. She put me on chemotherapy,” Libby said.
In the next two years more tumors appeared on her colon and were removed. None of them were malignant. She decided to stop the chemotherapy.
After two more years, she began having more pain. She went back to Dr. Simms. She
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