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Less than 3 years since diagnosis
Interview 01  

Interview 01

Age at Interview: 49
Sex: Male
Age at Diagnosis: 47
Background:

Brief outline:Diagnosed with colerectal cancer and secondary cancer of the liver 1999, chemotherapy given.


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Describes the debilitating side effects of his chemotherapy.

 



If I tell you I have diarrhoea on occasions and I have vomiting on occasions but then I tell you I can have the two at the same time so you're sitting on the bog and you're taking a shit and you're being sick at the same time and you're tired because of all this sort of, these effects, and your feet hurt because they swell with the capecitabine and my hands got swollen and my back was hurting because of the referred pain from the liver.

They're all minor things, in some respects, I mean I wouldn't wish them on anybody, but vomiting and diarrhoea and stuff like that can be very debilitating.

And this winter has been very cruel to me I feel, I'm very cold, I shiver. I get towards 4 o'clock, 5 o'clock at the end of the day and my teeth are chattering and my, I'm shivering and all I really want to do is come home and get under the duvet.

So it's hard. One has in this latter stage of the past three or four months it's been much harder because of the side-effects and because of the progression of the disease.
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