this has been a funny week, feeling good and now been asked to do a t.v. interveiw, its a long story but i have a friend who was in legs and co, and recently on trinny and susanna and local t.v. my sis is also a bit of a local celeb,well my friend rang and said she had been asked to do interveiw about another girl she knew who was given 3 weeks to live and she had lent her a wedding dress to get married in, and she refused to comment, so they asked her opinion on jade, she said she couldn`t comment but she had a dear friend who was given the same news a year ago, and because of positive thinking treatment was still here . etc etc, (don`t want to bore you too much). anyway she phoned to see if i would be interested in doing an interveiw, i did think immediately NO, i really am a private person and didn`t think i could do it. but what if i can bring something important up. this is where you lot come in, HELP!!!!! can you give me things you`d like me to say, you know positive things, i personally would like everyone who is diagnosed to have blood tests and scans at least once a year cos i think i wouldn`t be terminal if they had caught it earlier. as i said it`s local t.v ( u.t.v. life) northern ireland and it`s on monday, so any good feedback would help. just for the record i really didn`t like jade doing her thing but the percentage of people getting smears has gone up by 50% (i think). so that can only do good right? so if i could help the breast cancer cause by even getting one person to catch it early then it`s worth it
thanks guys
liz xxxxxxxxxxx
FormerMember
Lesley is spot on. Your story will be a great help. I agree re scans & blood tests. Only other thing of importance is masses of money for research.
If Herceptin had been around when I was first diagnosed I may not have developed secondaries, as it is working on them.
God bless the research teams for all of their efforts over countless years, into every form of cancer.
Re not getting paid, I know money won't help us "terminals", but a wee donation for cancer research from them would help & would be good publicity? Just a thought.
thanks everyone for your helpfull comments, i will try my best to do this justice, i would just like to say that the scans and blood test thing is important to me as i was told for nine years that i was all clear, i had mammograms and phsyical tests only and when i complained of heavy irregular periods and tiredness i was told i was going through the menopause,i was also told that you only get blood tests and scans if you have symptoms, so for people who do do all the right things an still end up in my position, standard annual tests could save lives. i am going to write a list and try and get as many points across as possible thanks again
