Deborah James makes final TV appearance after being told she has just days to live

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Embarrassing Bodies, but didn’t think she would live long enough to see herself on the show.Deborah was discharged from hospital last month and given just days to live, despite currently defying all expectations.She is receiving end-of-life care in Woking, where she lives at her parents’ home.Deborah spoke about her disease on the show with Dr Tosin Ajayi-Sotubo and told him that it was “the last thing she was expecting”.Aged just 35, James was diagnosed with bowel cancer five years ago and has tirelessly advocated to raise awareness on the disease.She continued on and admitted she thought it was an “old man’s disease”.Deborah then revealed: “I started going to the poo, we need to say that, eight times a day.

I used to be a once a day kind of girl. Then I started getting really tired and I remember drinking loads of cups of coffee just to try and keep myself awake.”The advocate then said that she “lost loads of weight” and “started having blood in her poo,” which she described as the lightbulb moment “gut instinct that something wasn’t right”.In an attempt to lift the taboo on poo, she said that everyone's “favourite celebrities poo” and that we should feel comfortable to talk about it more openly.Deborah then took to Instagram to explain: “I recorded this with the Embarrassing Bodies team a good while ago, but it’s out tonight.”The inspirational advocate also discussed her role on the E4 show with The Sun and said that she “might not live to see the episode air” but valiantly wished that the “message to check your poo will live on long after she has gone”.Deborah, who has campaigned relentlessly for bowel cancer awareness, said: “It might be embarrassing but it might just save your life.