by Kate Robinson | Apr 8, 2025 | Gloucestershire, Patient Stories
You turn up and are seen almost immediately. It’s so relaxed and there’s always a cup of tea on offer. Juggling school drop off and pick up for two young children in between chemotherapy appointments at hospital was quite a logistical challenge for the Neal family...
by Kate Robinson | Nov 25, 2024 | Gloucestershire, Patient Stories
It is only when you see what a difference it makes and when you experience the mobile unit for yourself that you see just how brilliant it really is. When Joanne York was diagnosed with breast cancer at the start of 2024, the first thing she asked was whether she...
by Kate Robinson | Nov 1, 2024 | Gloucestershire, Patient Stories
When they first told me about the mobile unit I thought, ‘oh, great, that’s a lot nearer.’ “I suppose it all started about three years ago when I found a lump in my breast while doing Pilates,” recalls Lynne, who is 65 and lives in Fairford, Gloucestershire. “I...
by Kate Robinson | Apr 18, 2024 | Gloucestershire, Patient Stories
It sounds a bit strange, but I don’t feel like I’m a cancer sufferer when I attend the unit. Liza was diagnosed two years ago after she slipped and broke her neck in the garden. After further investigations in hospital, they found that she had small cell...
by Kate Robinson | Apr 15, 2024 | Gloucestershire, Patient Stories
Apart from saving on travel costs, it is far more serene and much calmer than on the wards Almost three years ago, Janet went to her GP complaining of bleeding mouth ulcers. She was referred for a scan which revealed the worst possible news that it was terminal lung...
by Kate Robinson | Jan 30, 2024 | Gloucestershire, Patient Stories
Peter, who is 64 and now retired, reflects on when he was first diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in 2019: “I had a major operation and was then put on a course GemCap (a combination of gemcitabine and capecitabine). Because this consisted of a tablet once a day for...
