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Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma (low grade)
Interview 29  

Interview 29

Age at Interview: 63
Sex: Female
Age at Diagnosis: 42
Background: Self employed partner/director of visitor attraction, married with two adult children. Ethnic background: White British.
Brief outline:Was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma in 1985 after finding a lump in her neck. Four sessions of chemotherapy put her in remission. She has been well ever since.

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Decided that if she wanted to hear only positive answers from her doctors and nurses she needed to be careful what she asked.

 



I remember asking the doctor at the time, “Is the chemotherapy going to kill me in ten years?” And he said, “I don't know.” And so I did learn not to ask negative questions. So you have to learn that, you have to, so you don't, you know, you want them to give you, you ask questions and you really want positive answers and you're asking questions that realistically you know they can't give you a positive answer to, so you have to learn to do that. But again because of my attitude, because of my belief that you can actually take care of yourself, and that because I understand, at least I believe I understand why I had cancer, at least the most likely cause, then it's really up to me to avoid it.
Jenni Murray - Cancer
Lymphoma
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