 This page is for people to contribute their experiences of their treatment in France. If you have anything to tell others, either positive or negative, please send it to me at N.B. All quotes will be anonymous |
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A comment on the Institut de Bergonie, Bordeaux "I have received superb treatment at the Institut de Bergonie in Bordeaux and I am responding very well to the chemotherapy although I have felt very rough" A comment on Brive Hospital:- "The treatment as a cancer inpatient is excellent but the food is absolutely appalling" A comment on Haut L'Eveque, Bordeaux "I was treated in Pessac, Bordeaux at the Central Hospitalier d'Universitaire de Bordeaux. The treatment was absolutely magnificent, second to none and the after-care was excellent - very personal, phoning me up with results and really caring. It's known as the best cancer hospital in the whole of France. However the food was horrible! I do speak fluent French though which must have helped" A comment on Perigueux Hospital "This hospital was really good, I was treated there for my cancer and my Mum was treated for hers - we both recovered and are doing well. The only trouble was that La Ligue du Cancer wasn't working in that hospital and we weren't either of us asked if we wanted contact with them. If you want help from La Ligue, you have to ask about it - they only speak French but are worth contacting as I found them very good A comment on Perigueux Hospital "I was exceptionally well-looked-after at Perigueux Hospital. The whole of the staff were absolutely delightful with never a word of complaint however violently ill or bloody-minded I was. They went out of their way to make sure I really understood what was being said and done and what was happening to me. They always had time for me." A comment on Nantes Hospital:- My husband is suffering from cancer of the pancreas. It was diagnosed in November. I found it incredibly difficult to be able to speak to any of the doctors at the hospital in Nantes and when finally I managed to track one down, she told me in the corridor of the ward, with people going past all the time that "probably" my husband had cancer of the pancreas. Although at that time all the tests had been carried out, the doctors were having a meeting the following day to discuss my husbands case. I arranged to see them but it took another 2 weeks before we knew for sure that this was true because the day that I was to see someone, on arriving at the hospital, I found my husband had been transferred to yet another hospital. My husband wasn't ever told by a doctor the cause of his problems (earlier he had been diagnosed with gall stones)and it was left to me to tell him. Without www.cancerbacup.org.uk the English site, I would have been lost regarding useful information. I at least am lucky, I have a fantastic family who have put themselves out to come and visit often, which isn't easy financially, and who are always at the end of the telephone when I need cheering up. Also we have some super friends here who call often, which cannot be easy for them, it can be somewhat depressing visiting the sick and my husband has quite a few bad days, plus he suffers from emphysema, another horrible illness. It must be especially difficult for someone who cannot cope with the language and also who have no supportive family to turn to. |