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I found a lump in May 2014 and they did the standard scans to check the rest of my body and unfortunately within two weeks I was diagnosed with secondary cancer, meaning I was basically terminal. I was given a diagnosis and a timeline of two and a half years, so with two young children at the time, my children were nine and three, it was quite…
Belinda my daughter, my youngest daughter, was diagnosed with terminal cancer whenever she was 24. She worked as long as she could. She was a veterinary nurse and her boss, the vet, was very very good with her and she would have gone in even just to sit and talk with him. She still wanted to go out with her friends at the weekends and she was able…
My dad was diagnosed with cancer when he was 54 and he passed away when he was 57. It was nine o’clock at night and the consultant and the nurse came into the room and they said ‘Frank, it’s cancer but you’ll have time to get your affairs in order’ and that’s how dad was told of his diagnosis. Those were the words that were used.He would have been…
Well my name is Carmel and my husband Eamon died Christmas of 2015. He had had an underlying blood disorder and it eventually changed into acute myeloid leukaemia. The transition from hospital care to the hospice happened very very quickly, from going in as an outpatient on a Friday to being, as we understood it, admitted over the weekend for pain…
My name is Anne Harris and I’m a nurse. I have worked for the health service for the last 40 years. My mum who passed away sadly last, 1st February last year, having been cared for by the health service for over 10 years with dementia.When mam was hospitalised initially, we were concerned for the care she received in the acute hospital, in that…
