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7-14 years since diagnosis
Interview OV24  

Interview OV24

Age at Interview: 58
Sex: Female
Age at Diagnosis: 44
Background: Clerical officer, married, no children.
Brief outline:Ovarian cancer diagnosed in 1989 after finding a large abdominal lump. Treated by surgical removal of ovaries and womb followed by chemotherapy.


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Would have liked more emotional support from family, friends and colleagues during her treatment.

 



What sort of support have you had from your family and friends and colleagues?

Well very good really. Not many people really talked to me outside the, well in fact family don't even actually talk to me about it. My sister commented the other day “I feel very guilty about, when I think about you and your chemo because we just left you to get on with it”. And I said “Well, you wouldn't want it, you wouldn't have wanted to be involved anyway because I wasn't a pretty sight, I wasn't nice to know and I didn't really want anybody around me anyway. So really I'm glad you did that really”. Sometimes it would have been nice perhaps to talk about it and say how I felt and but, you know, we did choose not to make too much of it with them because we just didn't want them to worry too much. 

But, yeah, people were very supportive but they didn't talk to you very much about it. And when you're back at work, once your bum's sitting on the chair, you know, you're fit. Great, you're back at work. You wouldn't be back at work if you weren't fit, would you?  
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