Interview OV42  

Interview OV42

Age at Interview: 57
Sex: Female
Age at Diagnosis: 56
Background: Social services care manager, divorced, three adult children.

Brief outline:Ovarian cancer diagnosed in 2003 following abdominal pain (diagnosed as gall stones) and bloating. Treated by surgical removal of ovaries and womb followed by chemotherapy.


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Couldn't visualise any future while feeling so ill from her chemotherapy.

 



How do you view the future?

It's, it's really peculiar, because you don't know whether you've got a future do you? I don't, you know, it's I can't even sort of think forward at all because I can't imagine what I'm going to be like, you know, I can't imagine what I'm going to be like when I get over the treatment. I, you know, am I going to feel better? Or, or am I not going to feel better? So I can't, I don't really think about it really. I don't have a view of where I'm going or what I'm going to do or anything really, which is quite peculiar really. It's a peculiar feeling, just living for the day, because we don't live for the day, none of us do really, but I feel now I sort of virtually do, because you don't even know what you're going to feel like the next day, even like with your treatment, you don't know what you're going to feel like the next day, so it's, that's quite peculiar, different, very, very different. It is.

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