Interview 12

Age at Interview: 16

Sex: Female

Age at Diagnosis: 15

Background: Student, single, lives with mother, father and two younger sisters

Brief outline:Diagnosed in 2003 with a brain tumour (ependynoma). Treatment: surgery (that completely removed the tumour) and thirty sessions of radiotherapy. In remission and under no medications.

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And you said that you can't do PE?

Daughter: No, because when I run it's hard, it still, I still get quite tired and I have nowhere near as much as what I used to.

Mother: You were worried about the head being banged as well.

Daughter: And if I bang my head or something it could make me ill again and.

Okay. Are you on any medications at the moment?

Daughter: No, I'm not on anything.

I would like to ask you how did you find studying after? Are you able to concentrate well?

I do get it sometimes, like some days I can go into school and I'd, it's just all way over my head, I don't have a clue. And I just cannot settle down and concentrate and everything, I just sit there and it's, it's as if it's going in one ear and going straight out the other ear, but then most, I only get that like every so often, usually I'm absolutely fine, I can get on with my work fine and come home and do all my course work and everything.