You mentioned to me earlier that you had the Ovacome newsletter. How did you find out about them?

That was in the hospital, the cancer section, theres a little section in there for people to wander in and you ask, you know, you say what your problem is and they point you into well perhaps you’d like to read this. And I didn’t subscribe to it I didn’t, I don’t have it every month or anything, I just collected it at the hospital and they would say well if you bring it back next time you come. So I just read about various, peoples various way they’d been diagnosed, how they’d been treated, but I didn’t feel I needed to have it every week. Every month rather. So I just read it when I was at the hospital.

Did you find that helpful?

Bit frightening really because I was reading of people, that was talking of people that had died and, you know, had had it two or three years, and so I found it, you know, I didn’t really want to go down that road, I wanted the positive things, which I found that I could do that myself. I didn’t really want to know about people that hadn’t survived, so yeah I was a bit cowardly that way.

But then I had 6 weeks, 6 sessions of the Taxol and I said to my Oncologist how will I know this is working cos I am really really suffering?’ It’s not nice, it’s not something you would want to wish on anyone. But I think having, I’ve said it before I think I got away pretty well. I mean I had the session sort of well say on the Friday, I was OK till perhaps the Monday and then I started to go downhill. You can’t sleep, you, I wasn’t sick because I had plenty of drugs to stop that, so I wasn’t sick. And as I say, this kept going on, you’d get two weeks of feeling really rotten then suddenly it lifts and you’re back feeling a bit normal. I continued with my golf, I couldn’t do 18 holes, but I continued with the support of my friends, you know, and you sort of age 20 years, you feel really really lethargic, you know, I got that I could hardly move my legs at one stage, they just felt like glue at the end, when I’m getting to the end of the 6 sessions.

So I recovered from the operation quite quickly and on the 6th day I was due to come home and they said well well give you the results that weve found. So they called me into a little room and there was, oh I don’t know, the sister, the two doctors, there seemed to be a crowd of them, and they sat me there and said that they’d found a cancer. And I, you know, it’s not happening, you know, you it’s , it was a cyst, what do you mean it’s cancer?’ They said well weve caught it in the very early stages’ he said it’s just, it’s all within itself he said it’s attached to your bowel, it attached to the lining of your stomach’ he said, but he said weve got it’ he said we should be okay. He said well get our oncologist to come and have a word with you later on.

So when the Oncologist came he was extremely nice, he explained what they’d found,’this cancer’ he said, but he said I’d like to give you chemotherapy.

So I, pretty numb really, my husband was waiting for me so he said, he said what, you know, what was the problem?’ I said oh well well get home first. So we drove home, so we had a cup of tea and we sat where we are now and I saidtheres good news and theres bad news. So I told him the bad news which it was cancer, I saidthe good news is they’ve caught it, theres no problem but they’re going to give me chemotherapy to be on the safe side.