I have recently had an anal cancer cut out at Peterborough City Hospital and now have to attend Addenbrookes Hospital in Cambridge every weekday for five and a half weeks for chemo / radiotherapy. It is about an hour and a quarter drive on a good day or the about the same time by train plus a bus journey at each end. The oncologist told me that I may not be able to drive after the first two weeks as I was likely to be on some strong pain killers by that stage. I worry that a long train and bus journey to and from Cambridge (they do not deal with anal Cancer at Peterborough) will be difficult if I am in pain or incontinent. My partner does not drive, we have no relatives nearby and all our friends have jobs where they could not take every day off for that length of time to drive me. I cannot afford to stay in a hotel in Cambridge during the process and nor would I want to as my partner gets very depressed dealing with their own cancer problems. Has anybody managed to drive themselves this sort of distance throughout the treatment process? Has anyone experience of using public transport with incontinence issues?
