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Less than 2 years since diagnosis
Interview OV43  

Interview OV43

Age at Interview: 62
Sex: Female
Age at Diagnosis: 61
Background: Retired school teacher; married; no children.
Brief outline:Ovarian cancer diagnosed in 2002 following constipation, frequent urination, tiredness, diarrhoea, bloating, umbilical hernia, and breathing difficulties. Treated by surgical removal of ovaries as remaining tumour was inoperable, then chemotherapy.


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Her husband had a series of small strokes and depression and could not look after her.

 



It was around this time that I became conscious that my husband was acting abnormally. He was very angry about the illness and we didn't know at the time but he was having a serious of small strokes, and his behaviour and personality changed. And because he was angry that I was ill and couldn't do things anymore, he became extraordinarily aggressive towards me, which made life very difficult. He didn't, I don't think he could help what was happening, but at a time when I needed, the first time in my life I needed somebody to look after me, there was nobody there and I was having to put up with a lot of aggression and anger and shouting.

When I came back from hospital that third time as an inpatient, he actually did have a stroke which was noticeable. He fell over and couldn't speak and couldn't remember anything, he couldn't walk. And it was only then, and later when he had had a brain scan, that we realised his behaviour change had been due to a series of small strokes, but it did make my life extremely difficult for some months. He became very depressed; it took him a long time to get over it. 
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