'I was in the public healthcare system not the private one and everything worked amazingly. I had this feeling that the train was leaving and I had to get on it or it was going to leave without me.' TG4TV evelyn_orourke
Cork mum-of-two Ann Marie O’Sulllivan was diagnosed with Her 2 Positive Breast Cancer in June 2020 just as Ireland went into lockdown.
Due to Covid restrictions and the world shutting down, trying to get a doctor's appointment was difficult and also, Ann Marie felt she didn’t want to be wasting time over what she believed may have been nothing.“I called the doctor who told me to stop moving and poking it and to call back in two weeks if anything had changed. During those two weeks it continued to be fairly sore, a throbbing pain and it continued to grow," she explained.
She continued: “There was also a lump in my neck and they were unable to take a biopsy of that due to where it was positioned but they decided to go ahead with chemotherapy despite not having an answer whether I was stage three or stage four. That was highly distressing - unbearable levels of distress waiting to see what stage I was at.
“Nothing stopped the doctors and nurses, they were phenomenal - I was in the public healthcare system not the private one and everything worked amazingly. I had this feeling that the train was leaving and I had to get on it or it was going to leave without me. “My life was turned upside down in a short period of time and I remember talking to a counsellor saying I need to get all my feelings out so I don’t have post traumatic stress, but it doesn't work like that.”
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