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Less than 2 years since diagnosis
Interview OV12  

Interview OV12

Age at Interview: 49
Sex: Female
Age at Diagnosis: 48
Background: Special needs teacher; living with partner; no children.
Brief outline:Ovarian cancer diagnosed in 2002 following abdominal swelling and frequent urination. Treated with three cycles of chemotherapy followed by debulking surgery and six further cycles of chemotherapy.


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She eventually needed an operation to remove adhesions that were blocking her bowel.

 



On the second of those combined cycles, my brother was here, and he took me in for the chemotherapy, and on the way in I started to get a stomach ache and when I was waiting to see the doctor I was really in a lot of pain and doubled up in pain. And a nurse came and took me to a bed in the chemo suite and got the doctor. And by which time I was really kind of writhing around in agony, I was in a lot of pain. And they gave me some morphine that didn't really help. 

But eventually after an x-ray they discovered that I had got a blockage in my bowel, some adhesions, forced by adhesions which if you ever have an operation in that part of your body you always have these adhesions hanging down and at any point they can loop round the bowel or they can cause problems with blockages. And I have had that before in my life. And it's very, very, very, very painful. 

So I had to be admitted to hospital and I had a bowel surgeon come to see me now and he decided that the best thing to do would be to wait for a few days and see if the blockage resolved itself. It wasn't life threatening at that point.  

But then eventually what he did, he decided to operate, and so I had my second operation within about 2 months, which was not very good at all.
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