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Cressida - Interview 01  

Cressida - Interview 01

Age at Interview: 81
Sex: Female
Age at Diagnosis: 62
Background: Cressida lives by herself but her daughter who lives nearby visits her regularly. She describes herself as ‘fiercely independent’. She needs help with cleaning the house and with washing her hair.

Brief outline:Diagnosed in 1989; on alendronic acid 70 mg once weekly. In 2007, admitted into hospital for rehabilitation and pain control. She had physiotherapy and hydrotherapy and also commenced on a buprenorphine patch (for pain control). On oral glucocorticoid for asthma for about 26 years.

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Morphine patches have made a tremendous difference to the pain Cressida experiences.

 



This, the interesting thing is that this, this patch, did you see about that patch? Do you know about patches?

 

Well patches have changed my life in a way that I didn’t they could. I started on the patches last September. And I think I must’ve had the first ones, more or less when I first went in which was the 6th of September. And I was discharged on the 28th. And I was quite… I felt quite sick. I never was sick. And I used to heave a lot.

 

And that’s why I was there for the three weeks to, to get the dose right. And they did experiment quite a lot, in getting the dose right. And then they came and they, it seemed I was more tolerant to it. And so I came home.

 

And I felt relief because I don't have anything like the pain.

 

Well it’s not just the walking because it’s the carrying too. I mean the walk, if you want to go for a walk… since the patches I can walk a little bit. But it’s you always have to think about the getting back. And if you walk to shop, there’s no way I could carry all that stuff.

 

So it had improved your …

 

Oh it’s improved it absolutely unbelievably. I think I’ll make the end of the year all right [laughs]. I absolutely… it’s a miracle as far as I’m concerned.

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