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PETA_WILLIAMS
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10 years ago

Telling my GP

I have been going to thw same GP since he started Practicing 11 years ago. He has lived my life ups and downs. I ahd to go in , with Christmas presents in tow, to update him I had Cancer as I have only been seeing the specialist. He was so happy and expected me to say the Lumpechtomy was clear , when I told him,I had Cancer and had to go in again and have the whole breast removed he was beside himself, it shocked me how grieved he was. He had a lot of compassion but I told him I was used to the idea now as my specialist told me almost a month ago when I first saw him what was probably going to happen, so I was used to the idea by the time the official results came back. It is done now. Ia m only grateful I don't have to tell mum as she has Alzeihmas and does not understand me . Which i am glad of as Mum would have been mortified.I am grateful for the unrelenting attention my husband has been given especially after 6 operations this year that I have had including Hysterechtomey. He is Bi-polar and has been handling thing like an angel and won't let me do anything and gives me a massage.Good luck all hugs peta

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  • Brenda5's avatar
    Brenda5
    Member
    10 years ago

    I saw my new GP on the first visit to a doctor in a new town and was diagnosed with breast cancer there and then. Well not officially but by the small print in the blood test he ordered and the mammogram, ultrasound and needle biopsy it was pretty much a done deal. He was not at the time my most favourite person.

    In between appointments with my surgeon, further tests and operations I would also have appointments with my GP which was kind of a chore with me being tired and stressed and all and one day I openly asked him why I needed to see him when my surgeon seemed to have it all covered? He simply said I'm the shoulder you can cry on. There were other reasons but I have never forgotten that one and although I haven't cried on his shoulder yet I have come pretty darned close.

     

  • Kim_R's avatar
    Kim_R
    Member
    10 years ago

    Hi PETA,

    I thought my doctor was going to cry! So now I find mine was not the only one. He explained he knows my whole family, we live in a small country town, he was up set for everyone. 

    He was wonderful to have on my side arranged for a second opinion for me in Sydney, straight away, this was a Tuesday I was operated on the following Wednesday. You need to pick the right team because this is what it is a team effect to cure this condition. I felt so well right up to chemo, finished rad on Friday and the tiredness hit me!

    good luck and try to have a good Christmas 

    kim 

  • Mira's avatar
    Mira
    Member
    10 years ago

    Hi Peta,

    I've been seeing the same GP for almost 35 years now.  We're about the same age and to say we've been through a lot together is putting it mildly.  When she called me in to get the results of my first biopsy and tell me I had cancer she was way more upset than I was! 

    Good luck with it all, it sounds like you have a lovely husband there :)

    cheers

    Mira