About the Diary

We put this diary together for one reason only, to put on record the "treatment" that Mano was receiving from Fife and Lothian NHS. We had to do this because we could not believe what we were going through and we needed to let others know what we were having to endure. It was also getting impossible to remember all the problems as there were just so many and we were increasingly living in a state of sheer terror.

If you think that you will be treated with compassion and care when diagnosed with the disease we all dread then think again.

We were left alone to get on with it by a system that takes no mind of whether you can be cured and does not care anyway. No support and no urgency about sums it up. Oh yes and no compassion.

Then when you think perhaps the Scottish parliament is there for a reason and they will help. Do not bet your life on it!! I wrote a life or death plea to all the most influential politicians opening up our hearts to them and asking for urgent assistance. We even sent them our diary. Well guess what? they did nothing, they haven't even replied to us yet months later. They are self serving cold hearted liars and cannot and do not serve Scotland. DO NOT vote for independence I beg you.

Please read the diary which was written before the blog started and is one separate document below. The posts after that are date ordered and are mostly correspondence and telephone notes. At this date 27th June 2008 we have still not received any apology or even a communication directly from the influential people we asked for help. Nichola Sturgeon and Alex Salmond have failed to reply! Disgraceful and inhuman - you voted for them!

READ THIS FIRST >>>>>>My Cervical Cancer Diary by Marie-Noelle Falconer

Tuesday, March 11, 2008

Email to Fife NHS beging for a surgery date

From: Peter Falconer
Sent: 11 March 2008 11:11

To: Pamela.a.swanson@luht.nhs.scot.uk; louise.ewing@faht.scot.nhs.uk;
pamela.a.swanson@luht.scot.nhs.uk

Cc: Helen.Eadie.msp@scottish.parliament.uk;
patientrelations.fife@nhs.net; Alex.Salmond.msp@scottish.parliament.uk;
FirstMinister@scotland.gsi.gov.uk;
Nicola.Sturgeon.msp@scottish.parliament.uk;
scottish.ministers@scotland.gsi.gov.uk;
Richard.Simpson.msp@scottish.parliament.uk;
ministerforpublichealth@scotland.gsi.gov.uk;
John.Park.msp@scottish.parliament.uk

Subject: Mrs Marie-Noelle Falconer, Cancer Treatment

Attachments: fifenhs1103.doc; lothiannhs1003.doc; Mano's diary.doc

Dear Recipient,

Please see attached correspondence regarding my wife. I have copied the correspondence to all parties I believe can assist or should be interested in the contents.

Kind Regards

Peter Falconer LL.B DIP.LP

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Monday, March 10, 2008

Letter to Lothian NHS 10/3/2008

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Peter & Marie-Noelle Falconer


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Ms Pamela Swanson

Patient Relations

Lothian NHS

Emailed to Pamela.a.swanson@luht.nhs.scot.uk

Monday, 10 March 2008


Dear Ms Swanson,

Mrs Marie-Noelle Falconer

DOB 26/12/1968

Cervical cancer treatment


I am writing to express concerns I have over my wife’s treatment from Fife and Lothian NHS.

I enclose a diary outlining both our experiences of the past traumatic weeks and how we felt at a time when we would have hoped the support from the health services would have been of the very best standard. In fact the support has been minimal and we have had to fight tooth and nail for information. I have had to seek out psychological and moral support elsewhere. We are both drained from our efforts physically and emotionally and we have yet to begin treatment.

It is concerning treatment itself that I am now facing a dilemma. I have been advised by the Surgeon Dr Cameron Martin that waiting a further month for the earliest operation slot could not only cause psychological distress but may affect the treatment requirements. This can have consequences on the chances of requiring not just surgery but also radiotherapy or drug treatment. This then turns a curative surgery into part of a treatment plan that has further side effects in all aspects. This will involve our lives being turned upside down and all the while knowing that just maybe there could have been an easier course.

I only want the best going for Marie-Noelle and to allow us to get on with our lives as quickly as can possibly be achieved anywhere and at any cost.

Thank you for your assistance.

Yours faithfully

Peter Falconer LL.B DIP.LP


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