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Interview 19  

Interview 19

Age at Interview: 47
Sex: Female
Age at Diagnosis: 43
Background:

Brief outline:Diagnosed with breast cancer in 2001. Under went a mastectomy and was given chemotherapy and Tamoxifen.


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Explains that she did not feel shock when diagnosed but wanted to talk to people she knew.

 



I came home and just phoned everybody. I just wanted, I just wanted to tell everybody.

I don't know why, there was no sort of: "Oh dear poor me," or, there was nothing like that. I just wanted everybody to know. And that's when I had to deal with everybody else's emotions. And I think it was probably, I thought once everybody knows I can actually be myself, I can actually then start coping with it myself. If I've got to cope with everybody else for the next six weeks, it will be much more difficult.

Talking of books they've produced a book at the Breast Cancer Unit of women's experiences of breast cancer.

And somebody loaned me a copy and I started reading it and I couldn't relate to it at all because every single woman who had written in it their, it was all 'shock, horror' and, I just, in the end I thought am I abnormal?

Because I wasn't in that 'shock, horror', you know. Never once was I like on the floor, devastated or anything like that. But I realised that it was real but I just wasn't reacting in this 'shock, horror' way that most people anticipate.
Jenni Murray - Breast Cancer
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