Interview OV16  

Interview OV16

Age at Interview: 52
Sex: Female
Age at Diagnosis: 50
Background: Housewife; married; one adult child.

Brief outline:Ovarian cancer diagnosed in 2002 following constipation, pain and bloating. Treated by surgical removal of both ovaries (previously hysterectomised) followed by chemotherapy.


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Found it easier to take in information when at home and asked her husband to read information too.

 



You seem to have been relatively well provided with information.

Yes.

Do you feel you had enough information?

I think I did. What I would say is, I had the information, quite a lot of information, more so than my mum did, I feel, and as I say, she was diagnosed in [town], but in my particular part of the world, I feel I was catered for. All I would say is that it didn't automatically mean a lot, because I would read it and not take it in, because of the state of mind at the time, you know, so it was good when I was calmer, you know, when someone else… I got my husband to read everything, so that he could point out things to me that, perhaps, had gone completely over my head, or, you know, I wasn't taking in for whatever reason, because I was so… well… I don't know quite what the word is, but… not coping that day, sort of thing. So, yes, the information was there, but it seems, as well, like you can never have too much.  

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