Interview OV37  

Interview OV37

Age at Interview: 80
Sex: Female
Age at Diagnosis: 79
Background: Retired state registered chiropodist; widowed; one adult child.

Brief outline:Ovarian cancer diagnosed in 2002 following abdominal pain associated with gall bladder inflammation. Ovarian cyst found during investigations. Surgical removal of gall bladder combined with removal of both ovaries, followed by chemotherapy.


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Was left with bad bruising on her hands from having cannulae put in her veins for chemotherapy.

 



Perhaps one thing, I forget the name of, when you're getting your chemo you get this, I forget the name of the thing, put into your vein. But this is the one and only thing I would say to the well-trained doctors, make sure that the young doctors who are putting that into the vein, they should have far, far more experience, because my hands were in a dreadful mess. Now, I had, out of my 4 treatments, I had one excellent doctor who made a perfect job, and the other 4, 2 in particular they just butchered me. And I was going about with hands, I mean okay, from a cosmetic point of view I wasn't worried, but if you had seen my hands after the mess those 2 doctors made of my hands, you'd have thought I'd had 10 rounds with Mohammed Ali without my gloves on. They were, they were butchers. Now that's the one and only thing I would say, make sure that those young doctors that's doing that job can do it properly because that is a nasty experience.  

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