Whilst I have a wonderful surgeon and was treated with great kindness during treatment once radiotherapy finished I felt somewhat cut adrift .I went in the private system as we had paid a fortune for top private health cover for many years and I did not want to take a bed from a public patient.However Ihave learnt subsequently from others of the after care they had received in the public system. I did not know what a breast care nurse was apart from a woman on the day of surgery who gave me a bagful of literature to read and a too big free bra which I did not need as I had purchased post op bras from Target.TBH at one point I was in real trouble and lost.I would have appreciated the support others have had in the public system as I had to find it for myself.
