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She is still organising coach trips for our members and making cheese scones!
With continued and generous support from ‘The Priory’ in Wellingborough we – the Crazy Hats team and members – were able to set up a ‘Crazy Friends’ Coffee and Chat morning to meet on a weekly basis – and we do like to chat!
As Mum would have said: “You’ve done your bit!’ We had – and loved every second!
Marilyn
In October 2019 Marilyn was due to have a routine mammogram at Kettering General. I took her to her appointment but just as we parked the car she said,
“I don’t think they’ll be able to do my mammogram today.”
“What do you mean? Of course, they’ll do it.”
Marilyn went on to tell me a rash had appeared on
her right breast where she had had her lumpectomy,
followed by chemotherapy and radiotherapy back
in 2013/14. I insisted she showed me, even though
we were sitting in the car in the hospital car park.
Her breast showed raised red spots which neither
of us had seen before on anyone else or in any literature. We couldn’t think what they might be. Knowing her history, I said she should see a doctor before her mammogram to see what they thought the spots were and after some dialogue with the receptionist, our request was granted. The Locum Doctor on duty that day wasn’t sure what the red areas were but felt it was OK for her to have her mammogram which she did and, thankfully, the result came back clear. However, to make sure, an ultrasound was arranged followed by a punch biopsy, whereby a surface section of just one of the red, raised areas was taken. A couple of weeks later the results came back negative but the rash and the spots were increasing. Something was definitely wrong. More investigations were required. It was clear to see, even if the results of the tests carried out at the hospital didn’t show anything sinister, the rash and spots were on her breast, the same breast she was treated on some six years ago.
Marilyn was discharged from the hospital and was told to contact her GP if things got worse. Things did get worse, and she was prescribed a variety of creams to rub in, but these only seemed to make matters worse with her breast beginning to look very red and ‘angry’.
We had to question, why she wasn’t immediately referred back to the hospital/breast clinic and seen by a specialist who may have been more knowledgeable about her condition. This didn’t happen.
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As Mum would have said: “You’ve done your bit!’ We had – and loved every second! ”
This is what happened next.
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