by Kate Robinson | Jul 18, 2024 | East Suffolk & North Essex, Patient Stories
The unit is in a lovely big car park at Tesco so there is never any problem finding a space, it just doesn’t get any easier than that. Michaell Joslin received his NHS bowel screening kit in the post just as the world was going into lockdown in 2020. “I thought it was...
by Kate Robinson | May 30, 2024 | East Suffolk & North Essex, Patient Stories
It seems pretty logical to me that the more relaxed and the calmer you are before treatment, the more beneficial it is going to be. When Kathryn was attending hospital for her post cancer treatment it wasn’t just the 30-minute drive in unpredictable traffic that she...
by Kate Robinson | May 30, 2024 | East Suffolk & North Essex, Patient Stories
In a matter of minutes, I’m out of my front door and on the mobile unit. John was first diagnosed with myeloma in 2014. “I had pains down my neck and back, and my GP couldn’t quite figure out what it was, so he referred me to a specialist,” he explains. “I was told...
by Kate Robinson | Apr 15, 2024 | East Suffolk & North Essex, Patient Stories
It means I can spend more time with my children Thirty-six-year-old Anna went to the doctor in her native Ukraine during the summer of 2021 after experiencing a hardness in one of her breasts. She was given a course of antibiotics, but when she returned to her GP with...
by Kate Robinson | Aug 22, 2023 | East Suffolk & North Essex, Patient Stories
To continue my treatment so near to home was a Godsend “2018 was one of those really odd times,” recalls Dave, who is 78. “My wife had just been knocked down by a car and was recovering at home. I remember one morning taking a shower then drying myself off, and...
by Kate Robinson | Aug 3, 2023 | East Suffolk & North Essex, Patient Stories
It’s a really comfortable place to go and the driver makes us a cup of tea straightaway I was diagnosed with ovarian cancer in 2021 during lockdown. I started feeling bloated and was putting on weight, then suddenly one morning I felt a great big mass on the...
