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Aged 61-70
Interview LC27  

Interview LC27

Age at Interview: 66
Sex: Male
Age at Diagnosis: 64
Background: Driver of excavator (retired), married, 4 children.
Brief outline:Lung cancer diagnosed in 1999. Left lobectomy (lobe of lung removed) in April 2002. Recurrence detected in lymph nodes in 2002, treated with chemotherapy and radiotherapy (died June 2003).


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He had difficulty in communicating with a 'foreign' nurse when he needed more morphine for his pain.

 



There was one time when I was in quite severe pain and I asked, I was taking morphine and it's self administered the morphine is, it's probably the second day after the operation, and you're in quite a bit of pain. And it's self administered, and the thing had run out, and I was in quite a of pain, and I was asking, not particularly because it was the foreign nurse but it was a foreign nurse I was asking, and I had quite a job to make them understand that I'd run out of morphine. And it took me a hell of a long time to get this thing refilled with morphine and I was suffering quite a bit of pain after my operation. But there's a lot of aspects of it, I think probably the good side makes up for a lot of the bad side of it, the down side of it. I think you have a lot of good side. As I say more so since I've been involved with the support group I've found the good side of it. 
Karol Sikora - Lung cancer
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