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They said it but was I the had menopause, A BRAIN TUMOUR

As a nurse working in end-of-life care, I’d become used to supporting patients when they were told devastating news – a consultant gently explaining they had a terminal illness, or the treatment they’d been counting on saving their life hadn’t worked. It was never easy seeing the fear in their faces, but it was my job to comfort them, to ease the shock and hurt in any way I could. Only, when I found myself sitting in their seat, on the receiving end of devastating news myself, I don’t think there was anything anyone could have said to make me feel anything but utter despair.

Id always felt I was

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