Audrey - Interview 12

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Audrey was alone when a young doctor first told her she had cancer. Later a consultant added that...
Audrey was alone when a young doctor first told her she had cancer. Later a consultant added that...
Audrey's husband and her three adult children were very supportive. They accompanied her to the...

Audrey's husband and her three adult children were very supportive. They accompanied her to the...
Audrey described her time at home after the Whipples operation. The district nurse and the GP...
Audrey described her time at home after the Whipples operation. The district nurse and the GP...
What was it like coming home?
Oh it was lovely to come home, be in your own bed, but I’m a very active person really, I couldn’t believe how weak I was I’d lay on that settee for about 2 weeks. I always got dressed and I never stayed in my pyjamas but I found a shower, still now when I have a shower it comes over me, I think, “Oh I could hardly…”, it just used to wear me out just to have a shower, you don’t, you can’t imagine it can, you don’t know what it’s like. And my neighbour persuaded me after about a fortnight to just walk down the drive, it was a nice sunny day, it would be March I suppose and she just said just come, I think thought I was going to be stuck there forever, you know, I’d got no incentive at all to do anything. My first real trip out was to a, which I thought was rather apt really, was to, there was a mothers day service at my grand-daughter’s school so that was nice and then on the Sunday we went to a mothers day lunch and I managed that alright so. That was my first, first trips out.
Did the district nurse or any nurse call at all?
Yes, I had a lot of attention from the doctor and nurses came to take blood pressure and do dressings and keep an eye on this PEG thing that I’d got in my, they kept that in for quite a while and then when I went to see the surgeon afterwards he took it out.