Sample of interview paper
SInterviewee: Really, no. It’s comfortable and all that. You had your own room, and there were other guys in there that had prostate cancer. They wouldn’t marry others, they would pocket chips. One of them, this was his third time back. I got to know him. He’s a pilot, Peter Washboard. He said, “This is my third time back.” He said, “I don’t know what’s going on.” He could go in and with his preparation, and he could fly through this. I had trouble about the third week. The third week, it was starting to get me because I couldn’t hold the bladder. You know, as I explained to you first thing earlier.
Interviewer: How do you look at your outcome? Do you think you’ve had through prostate cancer and this journey, have you had a good outcome?
Interviewee: Yes. I do. I do think of the outcome up to this stage is I think myself that [00:51:30] of a progress that well, that in my own mind, I can tell myself, I’ll beat it. Of one.
Interviewer: Why do you think, aside from telling yourself, what things happened in this, these last couple of years that allowed you to say that to yourself or, and also have a good [00:52:00] blood tests. What along the way has created that outcome? Don't use plagiarised sources.Get your custom essay just from $11/page
Interviewee: Well, mainly, I have monitored myself, and I think the biggest thing is the urinating, the piddling. It got easier. It’s [00:52:30] easier when it becomes just bad for a man of my age. I got the others just bad normal, old men seem to put a little more, their bladder isn’t as strong. With that, that was the first outcome of me thinking it was all right. Then the second one is after the radiation. It took away [000:53:00] wall on radiation. I also lost my taste buds. When you lose your taste buds, you look at food, and you say, “Oh yes, that’s good food.” Then you go to eat it. It doesn’t taste like anything.
That’s what I was like. After a while, and then I wouldn’t eat, my partner [00:53:30] [unintelligible 00:53:31]. She always thought I just eat big meals and she’d full of plate up. Then I finish, I’d pick at it, and I can’t eat this. She said, “Why?” I said, “I just I can’t get it down.” I was having trouble even swallowing. I would eat slow, and I lost my appetite, and I lost weight. She got a bit more [unintelligible 00:53:59], and then I caught on to what I could eat. I said you could cut out the hot stuff like chips, rose. I said like soft food. [unintelligible 00:54:19] something like that, stew. Then I boil up pork bones [inaudible 00:00:54:25] because it’s soft and the [unintelligible 0:00:54:29]goes in [00:54:30]. I said, [inaudible 00:54:32] is good for me. I say this better than any medicine.
I changed my diet then. Then she started to realize that I was eating. Not so much but more regular in bit up. Then I come right in the eating a bit more in Nixon was starting to put on white though the specialist said, [00:55:00] “That hormone injection will make you gain weight.” So it did. Then one other thing that I must say that I believe the thing that helped me through with the radiation was because I lost my taste buds, and after the first week when I had a beer, [00:55:30] I was a regular beer drinker. They may not complicance before tea. I had a beer after my first weekend, I couldn’t even down a cane, and it didn’t taste nice. Not only that, it agitated my bladder. Soon as I had the beer, we didn’t hop.
Next thing, wait to [unintelligible 00:55:56]. Then I’ll put it down to alcohol was the [00:56:00] solidox hormone injection, was rejecting the alcohol. So cut it up, stop it. I told my GP about it when I went to see him, and he says, “I’ll tell you another thing that will agitate the bladder.” He said his coffee. I know he used to drink a lot of coffee. I said, ” Oh, okay.” So I cut off the coffee, stopped [00:00:56:30] drinking. Then my problem is when you can drink tea. I said, no. I said mala is a food. I would drink mala from there on from thereon. So I did that, and I believe myself that that had a lot to do with my well-being.
Interviewer: Let me ask you to tighten that up for me, for this guy. It’s almost like what you’re saying is that you changed your diet, and [00:57:00] you had a healthier diet, and that was beneficial to your outcome?
Interviewee: I truly believe that.
Interviewer: Can you rephrase that for me in your own words? Just a nice short sentence.
Interviewee: I changed my diet to a healthy diet. I always ate healthily but in a bigger way. By changing my diet, I actually changed the [00:57:30] volume that I was eating and having healthier food. I need it so much. At this age, well not working or anything, don’t need so much. Don’t need so much food, which is a good thing.
Interviewer: Let’s talk about a few of the other things. Do you think that your outcome and the [00:58:00] fact that you were able to access information, get treatment, a treatment that seems to work, despite being too old for prospecting? Why do you think that you got that, and maybe other people, particularly Maori men, might not get that treatment? What’s your take on it?
Interviewee: To be honest, I never really thought about it until [00:58:30] the specialists I went to after he said we stopped the solidox and all that. It just slipped out, when I said to him about it, and he says, “There has been a shakeup in the system.” He actually came straight out and said to me, “If you’re of Maori, Polynesian,” he said it that, [00:59:00] it comes up on his own. If he is a Maori, he just goes [unintelligible 00:59:01] And he puts some straight up on top. He said, “And he gets dealt with first.”
Interviewer: Why do you ]unintelligible 00:59:18]
Interviewee: Now I looked at him, and I says, “Oh, really?” I’ll say, “But that wasn’t the case with me, was it?” He said, [00:59:30] “No.” He said, “Because nobody knew you’re Maori, with a name look smaller.” Until I said, “Did you hear back the remark?” He said, “Well, yes.”[unintelligible 00:59:51] .Then when I went to Inver cargo, the Maori has a name Invercargill at that time was-