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Age 41-60
Interview CP32  

Interview CP32

Age at Interview: 57
Sex: Male
Background: Medically retired crime reporter; divorced; 2 children.
Brief outline:Back and right leg pain following spinal stroke, 1997. Treatments: Nurse led Pain Clinic. Advice and medication. Current medication: morphine patches and gabapentin. Past medication: amitriptyline, dihydrocodeine.


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Buys in microwave frozen meals because he often doesn't feel like cooking and worries about burning himself.

 



What other sort of help are you going to be getting?

They're going to be doing housework, now I've also been put in contact with a company which delivers frozen meals. Which will save me a lot of cooking. Because I've got a large freezer there and a fridge freezer so I could probably put in about a fortnight's meals at a time.  

And it's, that's saved a lot as well because it can get a bit dicey at that cooker at times. When you're in a bit of pain, it won't be the first time that I've burnt myself. Now I've got round that problem as well. Instead of getting by with a cup of tea and a bit of toast because I don't feel like it I just put a meal in the microwave and that's it done.  

So for every problem that you seem to hit, if you look long and hard enough, there's an answer to it. There's no such thing as a thing can't be done, it can. Maybe not the way you want it to be done, or the way you would like it to be done, but it can always be done. And that is one of the limitations that you've got to accept.  
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