@Silkierabbit
Thanks for the very helpful and thorough review of the Sarah Beany programme.
They might have shown NHS Yoevil Hospital, but I read she was also treated at the Marsden and I simply can't imagine she was not a private patient. She had such fast tracked treatment it's impossible she isn't private and in any case someone with her wealth would be extraordinarily unusual not to have private insurance considering the catastrophic state of the NHS.
Sadly, private healthcare is now necessary in the UK if you want treatment within a reasonable and safe timeframe, and anyone who can afford is going to get it, obviously.
It's the fact that she is misleading people by presenting it as though she was treated solely on the NHS. That is deceitful.
"I didn't like the if you get breast cancer don't be anxious at end like its nothing but think it was well meant. And I think the film showed it was difficult but does end."
Oh no, I agree, not that again, I don't like that either!!! I thought the be positive thing had finally gone out of fashion a few years ago (to be replaced by "don't eat sugar; eat kale/ lemons / garlic / or whatever the person thinks is the magic ingredient of the day).
"Don't be anxious" oh ok, so I think the person saying that needs to do 6 months chemo, a year of immune therapies, have a boob cut off, have all their lymph nodes removed on one side, get chemo brain, peripheral neuropathy, have whatever other side effects come along, weeks of radiotherapy, and then be told that the cancer may come back, there's an increased risk of leukaemia due to the treatments received etc etc. It is infuriating to hear we shouldn't be anxious when faced with stuff like we are faced with. It is NOT for them to decide what we are or aren't anxious about.
Plus it doesn't always end does it. For a lot of people it does, but for a lot of people it doesn't. they do say that secondary breast cancer is the forgotten, misunderstood disease where there is so much focus on survivorship.
End of my rant I need to stop thinking about this now!
@HauntedDishcloth
I understand why you do, but I personally don't think you need to feel guilty you got your treatment sooner. You got it in the correct timeframe; not your fault the NHS is collapsing.
Multiple European countries treat all their citizens (including people on low incomes) far faster than the NHS does. I know because I have lived in several of those countries.
Yes, it is unfair, but it's the system in the UK that is unfair, where the wealthier get healthcare within an appropriate timeframe while everyone on the NHS has to wait far too long; this is not your fault. A bit faster and a bit more luxurious is fair if someone if paying more, what I basically think is that the NHS is now truly substandard. Poor nurses etc and other staff so many of them doing their best but the situation is a disaster and national disgrace.
It is also why I am actually very angry that Sarah Beany is acting as though she was treated solely on the NHS which I cannot believe. It could have been a decision by the TV company and not her, who knows. She should just be transparent and honest.