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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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Finds it difficult to adopt the low fibre diet she needs because she had had bowel blockages.

 



Well I have to be, since the last blockage that I had, the, they recommend that I have a low fibre diet, and this is opposite to everything that I'd been eating before; I tried to eat healthily with high fibre and lots of fruit and vegetables. And I am, I don't usually eat meat but since I'm on this low fibre diet then I have eaten a little bit of meat and I don't eat the amount of fruit and vegetables that I did. 

It's difficult because sometimes I want to eat them and I have to peel everything and I'm supposed to sort of cook the vegetables till they're soft but I don't always. So I probably don't keep to it as much as I should but like I make bread and I can't eat wholemeal bread now, I have to have white bread, so there's all those sorts of things. And it's a bit embarrassing if you're in a restaurant and you get something like potatoes and you're sitting there peeling them off, peeling your new potatoes, it just looks very strange. But so I do that.  
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