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7-14 years since diagnosis
Interview OV01  

Interview OV01

Age at Interview: 63
Sex: Female
Age at Diagnosis: 52
Background: Retired school & university librarian; married, 2 adult children.
Brief outline:Ovarian cancer diagnosed in 1992 following abdominal pain. Treated by surgical removal of ovaries and womb, and chemotherapy. Recurrences treated with further chemotherapy and radiotherapy. Bowel surgery needed to treat blockages.


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Her husband continued to go out to play bridge twice a week as a break from his caring responsibilities.

 



My husband has been absolutely tremendous. He says the one thing that he needs to keep going is his great hobby of bridge. So he goes out about twice a week in the evening to play bridge, lately as I've got slightly worse the children have sometimes come round to keep me company, both of them live quite close to here. But I don't want to impose too much on their lives either. 'Cos they've got their own lives. I think it's only once that I was in such terrible pain that he didn't go, but  normally I'm quite happy to be on my own, and I'm very lucky that he's a very good cook, I persuaded him that, you know, with all the jobs that he now realises did take up a lot more of my time than he realised, we do have help in the house with the cleaning and so on every fortnight but it took him quite a long time to accept that.  
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