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Living with DyingArrow
Age 30-50
Interview 32  

Interview 32

Age at Interview: 50
Sex: Female
Age at Diagnosis: 48
Background: Educational psychologist (part-time), married, one child
Brief outline:Diagnosed with colorectal cancer in 2001, followed by anterior resection of the colon and chemotherapy In 2003 secondary tumour found in the liver, followed by a liver section. Has also used complementary therapies.


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Her illness has made her relationship with her husband even better than it was.

 



We've talked about the support groups the healing groups and the importance of sharing things with people and not holding it in yourself. Have you been able to talk to close friends and family members, apart from people in those groups?

Yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, we don't have much family. All our parents are dead. It's a relief that mine aren't here to go through this with me, but we do have a lot of friends and some very close friends and our phone bill went sky high, as did other people's, phoning me. Yeah, I've kept a very open dialogue with lots and lots of people and I mean yeah we trod the road together really.

You and your husband?

Oh yeah. Absolutely. I mean we've always had a long and wonderful relationship but I didn't think it could get so much better but it actually has done. I mean our depth of feeling is about a million times deeper than it was. We didn't know that those depths were there but again going through something like this is incredibly bonding. And we've sat up in the middle of the night with pots of tea and tears and we've laughed and cried together. We've been through the bad news together, we've been through the good news together and it's made us value each other in a way we didn't know was possible and that's the great thing about this.
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