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Living with DyingArrow
Age 61-70
Interview 12  

Interview 12

Age at Interview: 65
Sex: Female
Age at Diagnosis: 57
Background: Teacher (retired), divorced, one child
Brief outline:Diagnosed with breast cancer in 1994, followed by lumpectomy and radiotherapy. In 1997 another tumour diagnosed, followed by a mastectomy. In 2000 had a meningioma, followed by surgery.


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Suggests that people eat a good diet, avoid stress and believe that they will get better.

 



Is there anything you feel you'd like to say to people who perhaps have been given a diagnosis that their illness is not curable?

I would say that they must have patience, a belief in themselves. If they feel their diet is not of a high standard they should try and improve it because it is important. 

At the same time they need to spend their time in the company of good friends and to avoid situations which cause stress because enough stress is going on in their lives with the illness, they don't want constant rows or disagreements with neighbours or anything of that sort and to engross themselves in things that give them pleasure.

And what would you say, earlier you were talking to me about, I think you said your philosophy of life, you said you hadn't got a religion but it was like a belief in yourself?

I think you've got to have a belief, a faith in yourself that you're going to do it that you're going to get better and you've got to believe that you're going to get better.
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