Patricia - Interview 27  

Patricia - Interview 27

Age at Interview: 57
Sex: Female
Background: Ethnic background / nationality: White British

Brief outline:Patricia was diagnosed with DCIS in 1999, aged 53. She had a mastectomy and, about a year later, a second mastectomy because she felt unbalanced with only one breast and worried about recurrence.

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Patricia found her prosthesis heavy and uncomfortable and prefers wearing a swim prosthesis.

 



I went to get, visit for prosthesis and I realised that the prosthesis when I did get it was very, very heavy. Because I had big breasts of course and then there was getting the bras and things like this, and I managed to find a very good mail order to get some of these pretty ones from, which made it all much better.
 
I went back to work and one of the first things I realised was how uncomfortable it was because part of my job was to rush around a lot. And I found the prosthesis was heavy but it was also, especially in the hot weather, it was uncomfortable, I was sweating.
 
So I actually got in touch with the mail order catalogue and I realised that there was another prosthesis you could buy which was really more for swimming. But it did have a heavy piece in the middle and I, so I invested in one of those which was quite cheap. And I found that much better, I didn’t have the weight on my arm and I got quite a few so I could change them regularly, although there was still this sweating bit.

Ductal carcinoma in situ
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