Andrea Gilligan
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first heard Jun 2026
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Family Flowers Only by Grief Ireland · Family Flowers Only with Andrea Gilligan · 14 Jun 2026
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And like I ended up, I was going to the GP that much in the months afterwards to my own GP in Dublin.
She said to me, she said, I actually think you have health anxiety or some name on it.
That's what it is, health anxiety.
She said, you have.
I have that for sure.
She was like, you are convinced you're going to be, you're waiting to be diagnosed with a cancer.
It's not if, it's just when.
It's when, yeah.
Oh, you know, I'm looking for moulds, I'm going to the doctor.
She's like, that's a freckle.
Like, I'm like a lunatic about every possible thing I could have.
Like, so...
I suppose I'm a big screening advocate you know and that I would be like you know whatever whatever's going I'll take it I'll do you know in one way like it hasn't actually dad's experience despite everything he went through it hasn't put me off engaging you know with like all of the different tests and screenings and all of that like I would be very pro would you oh god yeah get yourself checked everything despite even his experience but I would be but like I find like I'm an absolute lunatic about
like that's exactly it I'm waiting to be told I've something yeah I definitely was like that I remember like having pains in my legs I'd say it was just stress or something I was like I probably have a tumour in my leg but other people who haven't lost they can't get that no they're like what's wrong with you put it out of your head forget about it
and I think that was because for my dad because it was picked up on screening because he like he had no signs he had no symptoms yeah he didn't go to the doctor or display in anything yeah so you're not in your head mentally you're not going to hang around wait to get sick no so I'm nearly I'm looking for it you know I find myself going looking for it like yeah but now to live that way but after a time it kind of eases off well I wasn't sleeping for a long time like for a long time afterwards because I think I had total health anxiety and
like i was probably lying in bed at night with palpitations and she thought i thought i was having a heart attack and you know i ended up having to have a chat with myself and say you need to calm the f down yeah just like but for me now it's like time has gone on i'm like you haven't dropped dead yet so yeah you spent the last 10 years dressed out of your head yeah just chill yeah do you know what's funny i found um i probably really only properly grieved dad during covid
yeah yeah were you one of those ones that just was go go go go oh god yeah and I still am to a certain extent but I think definitely in the because we had maybe dad died 2018 so we only had a year before COVID yeah so it was kind of like we had one year or a year and a little bit and then COVID kicked in yeah whatever March 2020 yeah
So Christmas is completely ruined.
Christmas now is just, hate Christmas.
Hate it.
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