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Before Catherine became a nurse, she was working as a Health Care Assistant. She would get upset when she wouldn’t be able to give her patients pain killers or similar medication as she is not a qualified nurse. To be able to give them the best possible help and support, she decided to become one.
Now, 10 years later, she is helping cancer patients at the BMI Three Shires private hospital in Northampton.
“When I first started nursing, I was working in A&E for 5 years, but I always wanted to do oncology.”
Cathy started working at Northampton General Hospital as an oncology nurse. However, after a while, she moved to the BMI Three Shires as an oncology sister where she enjoys the working environment and the amount of care and support she is able to provide to her patients.
“Some of the treatments we give are not available at the NHS. We have the time to engage with patients. We have a mobile phone that is available 24/7 so that our patients can ring and it is because of that personal touch that patients feel supported, they are not just a number.”
Cathy mentioned that maintaining a healthy diet is very important, especially no smoking and no drinking. Those are some really important factors of lowering the risks of getting cancer in the first place. Despite what her colleagues might say, after seeing what sort of things go in the meat we're eating which could lead to possible diseases, she even decided to become vegan.
“Don’t ignore the symptoms of breast cancer, don’t ignore the lumps.”
Cathy also added that male breast cancer shouldn’t be a taboo and that society should help them open up about it as much as women do, to have equal support. More about that in the documentary.
The Editor/Producer/Director of “Male with breast cancer” documentary, Bruna Tomsic