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Jade Goody - prognosis is poor. I feel sad about this.

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LightShinesInTheDarkness · 04/02/2009 09:00

I am not a big fan or anything, and I don't feel more sorry for celebrities than for anyone else, but it all seems such a terrible waste. Hope for a miracle, as thats what it will take now, apparently.

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KingRolo · 04/02/2009 13:45

I really do feel so sad for Jade and her family. What a terrible thing to happen to such a young woman who still has her whole life ahead of her.

TotalChaos · 04/02/2009 13:46

[charlee] that's shocking that they appear to be withholding screening due to history of mental health problems, I'd be speaking of your local PALS about that.

Very sad news

CharleeheartsherChains · 04/02/2009 13:47

Im going to ask my new doctor he is very nice and i think i may be able to explain to him that sod my (past) mental health i would rather have the smear and not risk it.

Janus · 04/02/2009 13:48

Charlee, hate to recommend this but why not say you have abnormal bleeding and you would like a smear? I did in fact have abnormal bleeding and subsequently found to have pre-cancerous cells, this started when I was 27. If you're determined maybe this is the way but I'm not sure if I should really recommend this, I just think if someone would feel better then they should be offered the smear.

shoptilidrop · 04/02/2009 13:53

It is ver sad, im not ashamed to say that i was quite upset up when i read the news. Poor poor girl, and poor children. Ive always had a bit of a soft spot for jade, i dont condone or agree with half the things she does/says.. but i think she tries her best, and has been dealt a pretty rough hand.
She must be feeling so angry and resentful that she had been going to the docs so long about it - and it was just dismissed. TBH, that is shocking, i think doctors need to listen to patients concerns.
I also think she will stay in the spot light - i would do the same. She will be providing for her children when shes gone and will also highlight this to everyone.
I wish her all the luck in the world.

Lilyloo · 04/02/2009 13:54

poor girl she must be terrified

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LightShinesInTheDarkness · 04/02/2009 14:12

Have started a separate thread, but see this campaign to have the age at which screening starts lowered to age 18.

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extremelychocolateymilkroll · 04/02/2009 14:58

Thanks for posting those details LightShines.

Shhhh · 04/02/2009 14:59

I remember the 1st thread when it was announced she was ill and the amount of people who shouted her down and were very about her..
Welll.....I hope you can hang your heads in shame now.

Dh told me this news today and tbh its saddened me. I watched the episode of Jade last week where she lost her hair and I cried. She was a mum needing her mum...

Noone deserves this and esp not a young mum with 2 young adorable lo's.

My thoughts,love and wishes go out to her and her close ones and she is in my prayers.

Keep smiling and fighting jade. x

herbietea · 04/02/2009 15:02

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strawberrycornetto · 04/02/2009 15:02

This has also made me cry and then I went to sign the petition that LightShines linked to, and Claire's story made me cry too. I think its really shocking that you cannot have a smear until 25, how do they reconcile that with then trying to tell people how important it is.

The thought of little children losing their mum or how terrible it must be to face leaving them is unbearable in any situation.

My thoughts and prayers also go out to her, and to any other families facing this kind of tragedy.

Shhhh · 04/02/2009 15:03

just read charlee's post...im 29 and I have so far had (at least) x3 smears which I guess must mean I had my 1st around 2002 which would have made me about 23 (although im sure I had one before so maybe 19/20...

Have they changed the law since then to make it later for a smear iykwim..
I don't recall any issues when I asked for my 1st smear at 20 or 23, in fact I have my (now) dh to thank for it..he was the one who suggested I started the process...

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LightShinesInTheDarkness · 04/02/2009 15:16

I think we need to do all we can to protect ourslves and our daughters.

Lets spread the word about Claire's Message -power of the Internet and all that!

(Shhh - are you in Scotland, by any chance - apparently they start screening younger North of the border. The Scots always were an enlightened nation!)

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whitenoise · 04/02/2009 15:18

I am 27 and had my first smear at about 20/21 and am not in scotland. Its only recently that they changed it

tinseltot · 04/02/2009 15:20

Poor poor Jade.

It really is beyond me to understand how anyone can slag jade off as 'publicity hungry' or attention/money seeking.

In her shoes who would not want to make as much money as possible so that their little children would at least have some financial stability should the worst happen. To me this is entirely understandable and imagine how mentally and physically hard it is for her to keep working whilst so horribly ill. Yet she carries on.

Also Jade's mortgage payments won't be put on hold just because she is ill. I imagine that she is trying desperatly hard to keep everything together for her children's sake.

My smears are up to date but am ashamed to admit that my last one i let slide so that it was about 3-4 years late by the time i got round to doing it (i had 2 kids in that time and just could not be bothered to sort it out). I was lucky and all was well. But if i was overdue a smear now, Jade's current situation would definately have made me address the issue and get a test sorted out. People on this thread have already said that they have booked tests directly as a result of learning of jade's illness. Surely that is a very positive thing to come out of the publicity surrounding jade at the moment.

I have nothing but the utmost of respect for the way that she has fought against her cancer.

God bless her and fingers crossed for a miracle.

kiddiz · 04/02/2009 15:26

I was thinking the same Shhh. I had 1st smear when I was at uni which would have been when I was 20/21. Have they raised the age? And if so why?

Shhhh · 04/02/2009 15:31

No, im not in scotland..Im northwest...
AND read nthis thread from the start and someone earlier said in parts of london (those less of...iykiwm) are offered them routinly due to low sex age etc...

afaik I am not in a low class area with high sexual activity....

HecateQueenOfGhosts · 04/02/2009 15:33

I'm not a fan of her at all, so I feel nothing because it's Jade Goody, iyswim - but I feel dreadfully sorry for any child faced with losing their mother, and I would feel sorry for anyone facing their own death.

HecateQueenOfGhosts · 04/02/2009 15:35

And I realise that that sounds awful I just mean I don't care about the 'celebrity' aspect. It's not more awful because it's happening to a famous person. IYSWIM.

Salleroo · 04/02/2009 15:48

The poor girl, she must be terrified and going through hell. Her poor little boys. It's very, very sad.

Where there's life there's hope though. My dad has terminal liver cancer and is still here 3 years later. We dont know how it hasn't spread (yet) but he get's on with his life as much as he can and that's half the battle.

olivo · 04/02/2009 15:49

I am that people are being denied smears. I was 21 when i was first called for one, had only become sexually active at 18/19,only 2 partners but was found to have pre cancerous cells, which were treated by laser. This was in the 90s. I wish people would acknowledge that many women do want to try and protect their health.

I am so so sad for jade and her little boys. I wish her a comfortable time and much time with them.

NAB09 · 04/02/2009 15:53

I have regular smears much to the nurse's last time I went "as you are not due," but I was having inbetween cycles bleeding and not for the first time.

It is so and it makes me as it might have been treatable.

VictorianSqualor · 04/02/2009 15:58

I was refused smear tests until past the age of 25.
My first smear they discovered CIN III.
There really shouldn't be an age on it.

wannaBe · 04/02/2009 16:10

iirc the reason why the age for smeers is 25 is that before then the cervics is constantly changing and therefore false positives are more common which in turn can cause more anxiety.

Peachy · 04/02/2009 16:13

My ex best friend had a snear at 20 which turned out to be just in time to catch the cells, she was told she was ver lucky.

Is it regional or changing? When I was a young'un you wre offered smears from within a year of going on the pill (so 19 for me)- makes sense surely?

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