We used to come home, you know after a test and that and I mean, there's obviously, there was things I, it was good really because there was things I'd pick up what the doctors would say, and there was things she would pick up and you'd find because you're in there and you can get blinded with science but you can pick up different aspects at different times and it was useful really because from that point of view we could bounce off each other and you know if someone was in a particular day where they just didn't feel like taking it all in, the other person possibly was. So yeah, I would say it was probably a mixture really, I mean the leaflets were good but it, it was more of a spring board to sort of looking more onto the internet as well.
So you feel that your wife valued having you there when she was seeing the doctors and having the consultations?
Yeah, I mean there's, there's a lot to take in to be honest and you always, you'll come out afterwards and you always think, I wish I'd have asked that or I wish I'd have questioned this, which sometimes, I mean you still get that but a lot of the times, we were, you know, I'd butt in and then that would lead her to say something and so yeah it's, it's always, I think it's always, if there's, if there's more than one of you then you know it gives twice as much sort of oomph to really sort of you know question things. So yeah, I think it was useful, useful for me as well. I'm sure it was for her as well.
How much have you felt that you've been included in the consultations and how, how well do you think the doctors have communicated with you?
Very, the current hospital she's seeking treatment have been very good they're very friendly and I mean, they don't, they don't even mind with me, I sit in or anything like that. With the GPs, it wasn't probably so much because of them or.., because it was earlier on it was one of these, I mean most of the time you go to a GP, you go by yourself , when it did get more serious I think, I don't know whether it's probably something hospitals are more sort of inclined to let, let you do and also moral support. So from that point view there was no problems, no problems and like I said I mean, it, it was useful. |
