Breast Care Nurses

As I live in a rural area and have metastatic breast cancer I have a McGrath Foundation Breast Care Nurse, she has been not only my nurse but my advocate and friend for two years now,she rings me every week and we catch up nearly every month when she attends out support coffee afternoon, I believe the rule of thumb here is that for a McGrath nurse you have to live in a rural or remote area and you have to contact the McGrath Foundation yourself,the nurses attached to the large hospitals are breast care nurses either employed by the hospital or the surgeons themselves, if I am wrong please let me know, it does seem a bit of a grey area as to who gets what in terms of support, to me it seems that people in the health industry dont seem to be talking to one another and just assume that someone else will pass on your details, that said I also have the fantastic community nursing service available to me out of our local public hospital and the nurses comes every six weeks to give me my xgeva injection and are available for any other nursing service I might need,so sometimes it pays to live in a rural area we do miss out on some things but make up for it in other ways, I have also got the cleaning services of a lovely lady who comes once a fortnight, again this is through the local community nursing service.

wendy55