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Living with DyingArrow
Age 51-60
Interview 37  

Interview 37

Age at Interview: 57
Sex: Female
Age at Diagnosis: 52
Background: Retired special needs coordinator teacher; married; 2 adult children.
Brief outline:Ovarian cancer diagnosed in 1998 following breathing and bladder problems, weight gain and bloating, and changed bowel habits. Treated by surgical removal of both ovaries and abdominal fluid, chemotherapy, then hysterectomy and further chemotherapy.


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She was glad to be alone when given the bad news.

 



I was too ignorant really to think anything about it. I just know it was a very long corridor that I walked from where the surgeon was to where I had to get in the car and drive home. But I am glad I was by myself because I am a person who can cope with my own emotions better than having to try and cope with somebody else's at the same time.  

You know, it must be difficult for people who take others and get bad news. People deal with it in different ways. I mean, now I am amazed that there was so little [information], that's why I got involved with Ovacome and started taking information into hospitals. 

And in the Midlands we have brilliant... it covers about a tenth of the country, and all [of] the consultants, the oncologists, the specialist oncology nurses, they all meet together three times a year and I am invited as a patient representative, you know, and that is wonderful that you are there on the inside, you know. Trusted to talk to the people and say what you think without being critical, but just to be involved. Just to be involved, yes.
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