About Debs' Near Death Experience
You, Me and the Big C: Putting the can in cancer
BBC
4.8 • 3.1K Ratings
🗓️ 10 February 2022
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
On the day our previous podcast came out Deborah James suffered a serious medical emergency.
While in hospital she started recording her experiences. This is the first part of those recordings.
This is a raw, powerful and honest account that some listeners my find distressing.
Don't forget, you can get in touch by using #YouMeBigC across all forms of social media - spread the word and share the positive support.
Email youmebigc@bbc.co.uk
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. |
| 0:04.4 | Hello, before you listen to this podcast, I just wanted to come on and explain exactly |
| 0:10.2 | what we're doing. |
| 0:12.0 | On the 6th of January, I found myself unexpectedly being rushed to hospital in a medical emergency. |
| 0:19.8 | And once I was out of critical care, partly I suppose to comfort myself, partly to not |
| 0:26.2 | fill alone. |
| 0:27.2 | I didn't really know how to navigate the trauma that I had been going through. |
| 0:31.8 | And I started just picking up my phone and recording voice notes, I suppose to make |
| 0:36.7 | sense of what had just happened to me. |
| 0:40.2 | And I started recording my experience on my phone and I didn't know whether I wanted |
| 0:45.4 | to share this as a podcast. |
| 0:48.9 | I thought really long and hard about it and I decided actually it helped me so much in |
| 0:54.2 | my darkest moments that I'd like to share it with you guys. |
| 0:57.8 | And I just want to warn you that some of the things I describe are a bit harrowing. |
| 1:02.5 | And we're going to do this in three parts. |
| 1:04.5 | Stephen Luzzo will be coming on in the other episodes, but for this one, it is literally |
| 1:09.3 | just you me and the big C. |
| 1:25.4 | Hello and welcome to you me and the Vixie. |
| 1:28.5 | I'm Deborah Jones, otherwise known as Bal Babe on social media. |
| 1:33.7 | And for this week, it's just me coming live to you guys from the Royal Marston Hospital |
| 1:41.2 | where I'm currently an impatient. |
| 1:44.2 | It's 2 a.m. I can't sleep and I'm sure many of you have been in the situation who listen |
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