When I first had, you know, the ten years previously, you didn't ask questions because it wasn't the thing to do, you know, and you were told. My oncologist was a charming man, a lovely lovely man but he explained it all to me but I really wasn't, I didn't know enough about it and you didn't really ask about it, you know, you asked one or two questions but you really didn't go any further, so I didn't learn enough about it I must admit.
Now I must say now, they sent me to see the oncology nurses and there is a whole, it was like a whole new life opening up because there I've got these wonderful nurses who knew so much about it, which I had nothing like this ten years ago, I was so in the dark I really didn't know what it was all about, I didn't know what oncology was, I didn't know what the drugs were, there was no internet, nothing to look up, you couldn't find out very little and you were in awe of the oncol, you know, these doctors, you just didn't ask them, you asked the nurses and it was, they really didn't know enough to tell you, you just had to know how your reaction was, you may get this, you may get that.
Here suddenly there was leaflets galore, booklets galore with Cancerbackup, you've got a phone call you can phone anytime you're not sure, they were superb. |
