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Living with DyingArrow
Age 61-70
Interview 04  

Interview 04

Age at Interview: 63
Sex: Female
Age at Diagnosis: 61
Background: Teacher and youth community officer (retired); married, no children
Brief outline:Diagnosed with leukaemia in July 2001; treated with chemotherapy and radiotherapy.


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Her husband's health suffered because of her own illness.

 



Oh yes, now I'm very fortunate in that respect that I can... that my husband and I do talk about things. And then, I mean he... there are also aspects such as the health of the carer as well. And that has to be taken into account and we found that we weren't thinking of his health sufficiently. 

And we discovered that whereas the two of us had been going to the gym regularly twice a week, it all suddenly stopped when I became ill and so he wasn't going to the gym, and so he put on weight and then he was found to have high blood pressure and so on. And so that's all been dealt with now, but it was actually over a year before we realised that his health was suffering because of my illness, so that's something which has to be born in mind.
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