Gabby Zappia started experiencing colon cancer symptoms while pregnant with her third child. Gabby Zappia Gabby Zappia, 37, started experiencing blood in her stool when she was pregnant. Her rectal bleeding was dismissed by her doctor as pregnancy-related hemorrhoids. When she got screened months later, she was diagnosed with stage 4 colon cancer. When Gabby Zappia started experiencing blood in her stool for the first time, her obstetrician quickly reassured her. She was six months into her th