Interview 02
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Regular cervical screening is important in preventing cervical cancer.
Regular cervical screening is important in preventing cervical cancer.
A lady who lives across the road she actually died of cancer which could've been prevented and I think that any woman that doesn't go and have a smear check every 3 years is insane. Because okay nobody likes being with their knickers off and nobody likes that but it is so important that it's worth 5 minutes of that horrible feeling of exposure just to know that you're clear.
She wasn't prepared for the pain she felt when the packing was removed from her vagina after her...
She wasn't prepared for the pain she felt when the packing was removed from her vagina after her...
Also they didn't tell me that it would hurt and it was painful and it was. Because they, they sort of plug you up after it with this gauze and you have to lay flat, and then the sister comes round and it was like sort of pulling a rope out of me and it was really painful and nobody had warned me. So you know you sort of, I just had to go through it and nobody had warned me that it was going to be painful.
She now encourages young woman in her workplace to go for regular cervical screening tests.
She now encourages young woman in her workplace to go for regular cervical screening tests.
Yes I'm quite an authority on cervical smears and so I work with lots of young girls and so they, or we all share experiences and I've got the longest tale to tell and I say, and I say "Well look I'm living proof that 20 years on I'm fine, so go and have your smears," and I sort of say that and pass on my knowledge as it were to young girls in my office. And so I think that's one of the ways is the going through something like that enables you to give other people the information, to pass on your experience so they're not so frightened.