Harriet - Interview 1  

Harriet - Interview 1

Age at Interview: 55
Sex: Female
Age at Diagnosis: 20
Background: Harriet is a management consultant and is married. Ethnic background/nationality: Jewish/Russian/Polish

Brief outline:Harriet was originally diagnosed with ovarian cancer aged 20 and though she has had some long periods of remission, four recurrences later she remains both vigilant and positive.

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Harriet
Harriet discusses the use of cold caps and hair loss. “If the nurses see you as a person rather than just a patient they might give you extra pieces of advice that can benefit you”.

 



And the other nurses there said yes, use the blue. Sure enough a lot of the people that use the pink, get a strip of baldness and they have to do a comb over, because the caps don’t fit flat on your head. So you don’t get as good a freezing. Anyway these are just details. That was private information, nowhere does it say don’t use the pink, use the blue. Sometimes developing relationships with your nurses so that they’ll talk with you as a person, not just as a patient, is really important. I’m sure they would give the same advice across the board to people, but they might give it in a slightly different more friendly way to someone who builds a relationship with them.

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