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Interview LC02

Interview LC02

Age at Interview: 53
Sex: Male
Age at Diagnosis: 51
Background: Company chairman, married, no children.

Brief outline:Diagnosed non-small cell lung cancer August 2000, followed by chemotherapy, then right pneumonectomy (right lung removed) in December 2000.

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Explains that he developed pneumonia because he wasn't warned that his immune system had been affected by the chemotherapy.
Print It didn't go according to plan because one of the things they omitted to say to me was that when I started getting the chemotherapy it would really impact my immune system, it would impact my ability to fight off germs. And although I'd been falsely diagnosed previously as having pneumonia, about, within ten days of me getting the first dose of chemo I had a very severe dose of pneumonia, it almost developed over the course of a weekend. And what was happening was that a lot of my employees and friends and colleagues were coming around to the house to see me because they knew that I was dying and knew that we had an open outlook towards this so they were all coming around to say hi and you know we're rooting for you etc. and it was really appreciated, but because they had omitted to warn me about my immune system I was being hugged and kissed, by all sorts of people, men as well as women. And as a result of that I caught every germ that they had. So I ended up actually being, seeing my new GP because I had changed GPs within the practice and switched to the GP that my wife uses. And that GP came round to see me and immediately got me admitted to the hospital and I was put into a ward where I was barrier nursed.

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