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 Publicado: Vie Feb 04, 2022 4:59 am Título del mensaje: Deaf people diagnosed with cancer face 'big barriers' |
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Deaf people diagnosed with cancer face 'big barriers'
Coleen McSorley, who has been deaf from birth, was left upset and struggling to understand the details of her cancer diagnosis. Now one care centre is hoping to offer more support to others facing a similar challenge.
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Coleen was diagnosed with breast cancer in September 2020.
At the time, Covid restrictions meant she was unable to bring an interpreter or her hearing parents to hospital appointments.
The 56-year-old said she was given wads of literature about her cancer - but like many people who have been deaf from birth, she struggles to read.
"English is my second language after British Sign Language," said the cleaner, from Stirling.
"At the hospital a big barrier was they were wearing too many masks. They were all talking at me but I didn't understand what they were saying, it was horrendous.
"I felt frustrated because I wanted them to pull down their masks so I could try to lip read a little bit, but they wouldn't and it was very confusing."
Coleen, who had an interpreter to help her with this interview, said the process was difficult because she was given a lot of thick booklets that she could not read.
"I would receive emails from nurses but I couldn't read them and I wasn't allowed an interpreter into my house at that time, it was very hard," she said.
Coleen discovered she had cancer following a trip to the physio after she felt she had pulled a muscle in her neck.
She said: "There was a pain in my shoulder and it hurt so much. When the physio asked me to lie face down on the table I had pain in my chest.
"There were lumps in my breast which could move but I just thought it was the change of life and put it down to hormones." |
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