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Interview LC04  

Interview LC04

Age at Interview: 72
Sex: Male
Age at Diagnosis: 69
Background: Engineer (retired), married, 2 children.
Brief outline:Diagnosed with small cell lung cancer in December 1999. Chemotherapy in December 1999 and January 2000, followed by radiotherapy to the head to prevent spread to the brain.


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Describes his experience of having chemotherapy.

 



And during the day you said it was eleven hours you were having the chemotherapy?

Yes.

Can you just, so did you have to sit down all that time or what?

Well you had, you were on

The drip?

The drip and you could wheel it a bit after but it wasn't very handy so most of the time you were just sat in the wee ward.  But a lot of time I spent in the reception, I was in a ward, there was a reception room and I just sat in there.

Right did you have anyone to talk to during this time?

Not a lot, sometimes you were the only one and you sat there for 11 hours.

Oh dear.

And it was a bit of a drag the 11 hours.

Yes. What sort of relationship did you have with other people in there, could you talk at all?

Not a lot. Oh you could talk, yes, but there wasn't a lot of; people I think they were more concerned with what was going on with themselves, never mind somebody else.

So there wasn't much chat?

There wasn't a lot of chat, no.
Karol Sikora - Lung cancer
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