About Kyle Donnelly

At 38, Kyle Donnelly was in the best shape of his life. As a personal trainer, he exercised five days a week, ate a healthy diet and enjoyed going for walks. So when Kyle started feeling discomfort and like something wasn’t right, he did what so many of us do and assumed it would pass, but his weight began to plummet. Within a month, the pain had become unbearable, and two procedures hadn’t revealed any reasons why he wasn’t improving.

Finally, after four months of pain, dramatic weight loss, and misdiagnosis, Kyle was referred to a UHN hospital for a CT scan and MRI. By this time, the pain was so severe that he could barely make the 500 yard walk to the front door of the hospital. That’s where he finally received an answer: stage 4 colon cancer.”

The day after his diagnosis, he had an emergency colostomy operation. Then, after months of chemotherapy and radiation sessions at The Princess Margaret, his tumor had shrunk considerably – but surgery was still needed.