And I was going through lots, I, over the period I of course went to the doctor's when it was, when it was quite bad, but they were pretty useless really. They thought that it was just muscular. It, they, and they gave me fairly useless tablets and couldn't actually really do anything about the pain that I was experiencing which was also making me not be able to sleep properly. I had to sleep on huge piles of cushions [slight laugh] to be able to get into a position where I was even semi-comfortable. And then around May, the, three days after I had officially left school on study leave, I went to see a neurologist as finally they had decided that it was probably something to do with the nerves it was being cut, it was being cut off somehow, that was what was causing the numbness. That was really the only clue to what it was. And he detected a very large swelling on my side, sitting on the top of my pelvis, and he, and although I still at this point I had no idea that it could be cancerous or anything it was just, it was just a swelling, or a swelling on my groin as my Gran liked to describe it which made it sound terrible. And then, [slight laugh] and so he, and wanted me to go into hospital which was more inconvenient than worrying because I was supposed to be studying at the time but, so there, so there I was, and I really didn't feel as though I should be there initially.
So you since the symptom started, until you saw the neurologist around?
May
Around May. So it's about eight month that you went to see your GP and they just gave you painkillers?
Yes, yes and sometimes not even that. They refused to really take my symptoms seriously, even though it was obvious that I was in a lot of discomfort. And all they did was examine me and, and they couldn't find anything. But I suppose that could be explained by the fact that my, that my illness is, my illness is a very rare, rare form of cancer and it's often not that easily detectable in the, in the earlier stages. |