by Zack Eckersall | Aug 22, 2025 | Norfolk & Norwich, Patient Stories
I think the mobile treatment unit is just brilliant. Sophie Shaw says that when she used to attend the mobile cancer care unit near her home outside Norwich it felt like she was going to hang out with some good mates. “I was always greeted like I was an old friend....
by Kate Robinson | Jul 25, 2025 | Norfolk & Norwich, Patient Stories
Hope for Tomorrow is a fantastic charity Ian McIntosh initially put his back pain down to a bit of hard labour after he had helped a friend dig in some fence posts in rural Norfolk. “I had been using a very heavy hammer and just assumed I had pulled a muscle and it...
by Kate Robinson | Dec 6, 2024 | Norfolk & Norwich, Patient Stories
I can’t believe how quick my treatments are and how quickly I get seen. It was a day just like any other for Peter Burgess until he picked up the phone to wish his brother a happy birthday and realised, he couldn’t speak. “I was actually going to sing to him,...
by Kate Robinson | Nov 25, 2024 | Norfolk & Norwich, Patient Stories
I wasn’t worried at all about switching to the mobile unit for my treatment. Former teacher Anne Steel clearly remembers opening the letter that informed her she had bowel cancer. “I was standing in my kitchen and the words on the paper absolutely floored me.” “ It...
by Kate Robinson | Oct 29, 2024 | Norfolk & Norwich, Patient Stories
You get to know the patients as well as the nurses; it’s so busy in the hospital so the staff simply don’t have as much time to chat to you. Cathy, 55, collapsed with chest pains at home in September 2021, and was rushed to hospital. Initially suspecting a heart...
by Kate Robinson | Aug 23, 2023 | Norfolk & Norwich, Patient Stories
It’s such a great system Retiree Trevor was initially diagnosed with melanoma several years ago, and after chemo all eventually seemed to be going well as he went into remission. Then in late 2021, he discovered a lump on his jaw line just before his annual check-up....
