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3 - 5 years since diagnosis
Interview 07  

Interview 07

Age at Interview: 63
Sex: Male
Age at Diagnosis: 58
Background:

Brief outline:Diagnosed with colorectal cancer 1996, recieved radiotherapy, surgery, temporary colostomy. Permanent colostomy 4 years after initial treatment.


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Explains how the location of his stoma is wrong in relation to his waistband.

 



Okay well if I can just explain, whether it's because I'm tall or not depending on where one's stoma is you see your underpants don't cover your pouch.

Right.

It comes right across the middle of the stoma so I've got, these pants that I've got on, underpants I've got on here a friend of mine brought them back from America because the ones in Britain they haven't got enough from the crotch to the top so that is just one of the silly little things perhaps that,

So what happens if your underpants are uncomfortable?

Well this is they are uncomfortable you see because they come in the wrong place er it's just one of those little niggles perhaps but,

And does it hurt?

No it doesn't hurt but it's just uncomfortable you see and if only there was somewhere where you could talk to or somewhere where you could get some bigger underpants.

Ideally what it needs is they want to be at least, I think they call it the rise actually from the crotch to the top and whether it's because I'm tall or not, I'm six foot three you see and so I even got the next door neighbour to try and take the elastic off, put a piece in the middle then put it back on again but it didn't work you see.
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