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You, Me and the Big C: Putting the can in cancer

#YouMeBigC: Rachael’s story

You, Me and the Big C: Putting the can in cancer

BBC

Health & Fitness, News

4.83.1K Ratings

🗓️ 7 March 2018

⏱️ 2 minutes

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Summary

"I had this weird soreness... it wasn't even in my breast" : Rachael Bland, aka Big C, Little Me, talks waiting rooms and breast cancer diagnosis with Deborah and Lauren.

Transcript

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0:00.0

BBC Five Live.

0:02.0

Oh my god.

0:04.0

Thanks for downloading this teaser for the You Me and the Big C podcast.

0:09.0

This is Rachel Storek.

0:13.0

I had pain first, which...

0:15.0

That's unusual, isn't it?

0:16.0

Yeah, we're talking myths later on in that pain.

0:18.0

That is a myth.

0:19.0

My sister not said to me, oh, you've got pain.

0:21.0

It won't be breast cancer because it's not painful.

0:23.0

Cancer doesn't hurt apparently ladies.

0:25.0

I have the myth that breast cancer isn't...

0:27.0

Oh, no, yeah.

0:28.0

And so I had this weird sawness that was kind of...

0:30.0

It wasn't even in my breast.

0:31.0

It was kind of under my arm to the side of it.

0:33.0

And I just thought, oh, I'd not long finished breastfeeding my little boy.

0:36.0

And I thought it's probably related to that.

0:38.0

Anyway, it's still something.

0:39.0

And it went away after a couple of days.

0:41.0

But because of that, I was having a bit of a feel.

0:43.0

And I was laying flat in bed.

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