Royse, who is married and has two teenage sons, had a lumpectomy and lymph node removal in June. <\/p>\n
On Thursday she finished her chemotherapy treatment at Northampton General Hospital, adding: “The nurses were just brilliant, they took me through every step, explaining everything including all the possible outcomes. <\/p>\n
“I felt like I was in very safe hands.”<\/p>\n
Although she did not reveal to her treatment team that she was a nurse, she said they eventually worked out her job was in healthcare “as I was asking certain questions and they thought I’d got a little bit of knowledge, although it’s not my area of speciality”.<\/p>\n
“Usually the last thing you want to disclose is that you are a nurse. <\/p>\n
“Everyone is treated as a person and is treated uniquely.”<\/p>\n
Royse is due to start radiotherapy in December, during which she will also receive HER2-targeted and hormone-blocking treatment.<\/p>\n
She said it was a “very treatable cancer, being triple-positive treatment is available, I have gone for the whole shebang to throw at it”. <\/p>\n
She added her one regret was having to put on hold plans to study for a doctorate in nursing, specialising in atrial fibrillation and arrhythmia at the University of Northampton, which could take up to six years.<\/p>\n
“I’d wanted to do it for years, but I have to concentrate on my treatment and getting well and back to work,” she said. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Royse, who is married and has two teenage sons, had a lumpectomy and lymph node removal in June.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":812515,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[59,102,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-812514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-gb","tag-health","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/812514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=812514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/812514\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/812515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=812514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=812514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=812514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}