Just days after RTÉ reporter Evelyn O’Rourke found out she was pregnant, merely six months after giving birth, she knew something wasn’t right.
An angry spot on her breast wasn’t going away so she decided to go to the doctor. The former reporter on the Gerry Ryan Show remembers to this day the exact words the doctor used to break the head-spinning news she had cancer. ‘One of the things I bang on about is the wording doctors use is critically important.
I remember the words I was told when my father died and I remember being told about the cancer diagnosis,’ said Evelyn. ‘The medical community has to appreciate the words ricochet around your head for years and in my case, it was ‘We have a problem’. ‘I had discovered I was pregnant just
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