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A Life for Living - Leigh Smith
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Video on 5 cancer survivors (different types of cancer, MS etc.) telling their story on how they survived cancer, what difficulties they had to face during treatment and how the disease changed their life. This video was produced for the launch event of the conference: Partnership against cancer and the objective was to create emotion and intrigue the audience to act in the fight against cancer.
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The melanoma on my face started when I had just lost a pregnancy.
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I was three months pregnant and I was 36 years old.
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I saw my GP and he said that it was pigmentation of pregnancy and not to worry about it.
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But then five months later I got pregnant again and I could see this growing and again
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I told him about it and again he said it was pigmentation of pregnancy.
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I woke up one morning and it had oozed, my skin had broken and my face was stuck to the
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pillow.
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So I realised that he was definitely wrong.
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I had worried that he was wrong but this confirmed my belief that this was not just
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normal pigmentation.
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When the diagnosis was confirmed that this was melanoma I felt very frightened.
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I was really worried that this tumour, some cells might pass to the baby because as I
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say I was six months pregnant.
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They then took quite a wide area of my face and they put a graft, a full thickness graft
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from my foot onto my face and then about six weeks later they took away all the lymphatic
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glands from behind my ear round to under my chin and from my back round to the front of
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my chest so I've got a big hole where I should have my sternomastoid muscle because it's
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gone.
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I prayed a great deal and persuaded God that I really needed to be here and I really think
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if I hadn't managed to have that pregnancy and had that child I think I would have succumbed
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to the cancer.
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I don't think I would have lived.
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Now I'm chairperson of the Melanoma Action and Support Group Scotland.
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We aim to liaise with the Scottish Parliament and to impress upon them the need for education,
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prevention and more research for treatment.
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I think once you've had a diagnosis of cancer it's almost as if you don't really trust your
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body anymore and your confidence in the things we take for granted about your own body and
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your own ability is quite shattered and it takes a long time for that to grow again.
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I wish more people would be aware of the dangers of the sun.
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- Niveles educativos:
- ▼ Mostrar / ocultar niveles
- Nivel Intermedio
- Autor/es:
- The European Union
- Subido por:
- EducaMadrid
- Licencia:
- Reconocimiento - No comercial - Sin obra derivada
- Visualizaciones:
- 817
- Fecha:
- 16 de diciembre de 2009 - 12:54
- Visibilidad:
- Público
- Enlace Relacionado:
- European Commission
- Duración:
- 04′
- Relación de aspecto:
- 1.65:1
- Resolución:
- 560x340 píxeles
- Tamaño:
- 18.57 MBytes
