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2-5 years since diagnosis
Interview OV30  

Interview OV30

Age at Interview: 48
Sex: Female
Age at Diagnosis: 46
Background: Unemployed community worker, widowed, one adult child.
Brief outline:Ovarian cancer diagnosed in 2002 following abdominal bloating and bleeding. Treated by surgical removal of ovaries and womb, and colostomy, followed by chemotherapy.


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Felt less of a woman because her surgery left her with a colostomy.

 



And is your colostomy permanent?

I pray God that it will never be permanent, because it's not a good thing for a lady because every day you bath, when you change, you cannot even, you know, I feel that I'm half a woman, you know, I don't know how to put it, I'm little bit confused because it sometimes you mess around without knowing what is happening.
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