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Interview CC24

Interview CC24

Age at Interview: 53
Sex: Female
Age at Diagnosis: 51
Background: IT Training Consultant; partner, no children.

Brief outline:Diagnosed with cervical cancer 2001. Radical hysterectomy and some lymph nodes removed.

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Describes an episode where she had problems with her pain relief after her hysterectomy.
Print The main thing I remember about those couple of days was the nurses were in and out changing drips and they took the morphine drip out and then gave me a sort of gun thing, it's morphine in it but you can press a button which releases a certain amount of morphine so that you can't overdose and on the second or third night I was in a great deal of pain in the night and I am not a wimp, I was in a lot of pain, very acute pain and I had to ring for the nurse. And she said "Oh I'll get the pain relief people to come and see you in the morning and see what we can do." And then I realised that what had happened was that when she changed the saline drip she had actually caught the tube going from the morphine thing, she'd caught it up in the bandage and it wasn't going through. And I asked her if she would move the bandage. Now she said "I don't think that's the problem," I said "could you move it," and she did and so that was alright then. So when the pain relief team came in the morning I said "No it's actually alright, it was to do with, I'm sure that that's what the problem was." I can't lie and say that you don't have pain but they do try to manage it. They give you the morphine, they give you volterol, they do try and if I rang and said that I'd had pain they would bring me something.

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