by Kate Robinson | Nov 21, 2024 | Patient Stories, West Yorkshire
with ‘Hope for Tomorrow’ and the NHS we can be assured that we are receiving the very best of care In May 2024, Robert received news that would challenge many – a diagnosis indicating six years to live – with prostate cancer that had spread to his hips,...
by Kate Robinson | Nov 1, 2024 | Patient Stories, West Yorkshire
It couldn’t be any more convenient. Keen cyclist and walker Martin Ashby put his aches and pains, along with a noticeable reduction in energy levels, down to just getting older. He had always enjoyed a decent level of fitness, so two years ago, at the age of 58, when...
by Kate Robinson | Jul 18, 2024 | Patient Stories, West Yorkshire
The support on the unit kept me going really, because without it, I would have struggled. “I call it the caravan – it gives the impression of one when you’re in it. Looking up at the blue sky, it’s quite pleasant. I’ve always called it that...
by Kate Robinson | Feb 28, 2024 | Patient Stories, West Yorkshire
I just can’t praise the service enough. John, who is 76, was diagnosed with prostate cancer in 2015 after experiencing symptoms he put down to “a bit of waterwork trouble and just old people’s problems”. Following a referral to a urologist by his GP, a PSA...
by Kate Robinson | Feb 6, 2024 | Patient Stories, West Yorkshire
…it’s very efficient and you’re often seen straightaway 62-year-old Richard was diagnosed with myeloma in early 2014. He explains: “I’d been having quite a problem before that with back pain, and I thought I was just a bloke with a bad back. I went...
by Kate Robinson | Feb 2, 2024 | Patient Stories, West Yorkshire
Everyone should know about them… I’m already doing my bit to make sure they do “Nobody would believe me when I said I was receiving my treatments on a bus”, laughs Linda, “let alone that one of them is also called ‘Linda’! I had to take a photo and send it...
