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3 - 5 years since diagnosis
Interview 20  

Interview 20

Age at Interview: 37
Sex: Female
Age at Diagnosis: 34
Background:

Brief outline:Diagnosed with colorectal cancer 1998. Permanent colostomy, radiotherapy, surgery and chemotherapy to remove primary tumour.


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Describes how radiotherapy burned her vagina and how she coped with this.

 



And again you see with the radiotherapy I never got told um, because it came through from the back to the front and burnt everything. Everything like you can imagine getting burnt on your skin when it goes all tight, that's what actually happened down below as well, so everything sort of shrunk right down.

Now I had the option to go and have some caps inserted to try and stretch it again but I've never ever bothered, I just thought I've gone through too much at this point in time, just leave it, so it's all been left on the wayside at the minute.

Oh God it was horrendous. Quite funny really, I used to like um, it was sort of quite nice, it was like May time and it was quite summery and that outside so I basically just sort of walked about with nice flowing skirts on you know and I think I um, I had a bit of cream. 

Oh and I think they gave you something to actually flush up your vagina as well, I can't remember what it was called but I remember having to squish something you know up into the vagina which would help, probably relieve the burning sensation that was coming through you know.
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