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Aged 51-60
Interview LC05  

Interview LC05

Age at Interview: 55
Sex: Male
Age at Diagnosis: 50
Background: Assembly spray paint worker (retired), married, 2 children.
Brief outline:Diagnosed with small cell lung cancer October 1997, lobectomy (removal of a lobe of lung), then chemotherapy January 1998 - June 1998, followed by radiotherapy to head to prevent spread to brain.


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During chemotherapy he was very sick and developed pins and needles in the fingers and toes.

 



When I came home after having the chemotherapy I was very, very sick with the chemo and my local doctor came up because I was very violently sick. I moved to upstairs, constantly in bed. When the doctor came in he gave us a wee box here [points to chest] and fed it into my chest with an anti sickness and morphine. And the nurses came in every day and changed, put more morphine in and it helped greatly.

That's good and what other side effects did you have apart from the feelings of sickness and hair loss?

I started getting like pins and needles in my fingers and my feet and my toes and once I started getting the right medication like the morphine and anti sickness and that it cleared away itself, it was no problem and it worked for me and it could work for you.
Karol Sikora - Lung cancer
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