Vicky - Interview 15  

Vicky - Interview 15

Age at Interview: 55
Sex: Female
Age at Diagnosis: 53
Background: Vicky is a bookkeeper (now retired). She is married. Ethnic background/ Nationality: White British.

Brief outline:Vicky was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in 2007. She had an unusual neuroendocrine tumour. She had a Whipple’s operation and then radiofrequency ablation to treat small lesions in her liver. She feels well but knows the lesions may increase in size.

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Vicky found it hard to forget that she had cancer and that one day her health might deteriorate. She found it difficult to plan for the future.

 



I haven’t actually changed my lifestyle much at all. I mean it does make you, you do things that you might have put off you know, doing. You know if you want to do something you jolly well get on and do it, because you’re, you don’t know quite how long you are going to feel well. 
 
And that’s, that’s the, that I think is one of the hardest things is, wondering when the day’s going to come when you’re going to wake up and you’re not, not going to feel as well as you did the day before. And you’re going to wonder, “Is this the start of the end?” sort of thing. That’s, that I suppose is probably the thing that sort of is constantly at the back of your mind. I mean they, they always talk about living with cancer, and it is, and it, you know you can sort of forget about it sometimes but really not, it’s there, it’s always there. And sort of it does affect whatever, any, whatever happens or things you know, you know things happening in a few months time. People ask you, “Would you like to do this?” And you always think, “Oh I wonder if I’m going to feel okay to do that,” sort of thing. But you just have to get on and do it, 
 

Pancreatic cancer
Introduction by Hugh Grant
Alison Chapple and Julie Evans
Pancreatic cancer
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