Interview 10  

Interview 10

Age at Interview: 69
Background: A retired telephonist. Divorced with 1 adult child.

Brief outline:Had a benign cyst about 20 years ago, which returned twice and was removed surgically. Has always attended for routine breast screening and results have been normal.


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She was repeatedly given antibiotics for an inflamed cyst before eventually having it removed surgically.

 



Oh it's a few years ago now, I went in the bath and I thought oh God I've got this lump, and it was just white, it was, you didn't have to feel it, you could just see it and it weren't there before, you know it just seemed to come. So I rang the doctors up the next day, got me in at night time, tea time and I went and he says "Don't worry it's just a cyst," he said "If it was gristly or something," if he felt it, it was soft it was one thing, it was hard it was something else you know. So he says "Don't worry about it."  

Anyway two years after that it come back again, just red, so I went back again. Gave me some antibiotics, went again. Then I went again and it looked worse and so he says to me "I'll have to give you antibiotics again," and he says "Bath it in salt water." Well I couldn't do it and he says "and try and keep squeezing it to try and get this pus out of it." So a woman round the corner says to me [laughs] "Come round here every night and I'll do it for you, you see," so I was round there, well it was awful. I was going, still going to work but I'd got this pad on you know and it was, it went black and blue.

And I thought, and it come all big so I had to go back again once I'd took these antibiotics, then I went back again, and then I went back again. And he said "This is all I can give you now," he says "but I can't send you anywhere as it is now because nobody will even look at it." So anyway when this last lot of antibiotics I took it, went down, so then he sent me then to the hospital and they decided then that I ought to have it out because they said "Each time it comes angry," they kept saying "it will come worse." You see so I thought well I thought that were bad enough. Because even say to bend down like that, I was having to go like this you see because it was just hurting me so much. 

So anyway I went and had it out in the end, only under a what is it a local thing isn't it, you know, so I had it out and I never had any trouble after that, it just stayed as it was.

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