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February was a challenging month, and in all honesty I’m still recovering.
For a long time I’ve been having chest pain that comes and goes. When I say ‘a long time’, I mean years.
I’ve written reminders to myself in countless notebooks to make a doctor’s appointment but while something is ‘manageable’, it is easy to dismiss it and promise yourself you’ll get to it another day.
And, well, when it comes to health, control over another day is an illusion quickly burst when you receive a call from a worried doctor after an ECG, telling you to get to the hospital as quickly as possible.
As you probably know by now, I’m a single parent to home-educated children, going anywhere solo is something that requires forward planning. A hospital trip, emergency or not, isn’t so easy with no local family to depend on. 10 hours later, tests complete, medication given, rough plan concocted and I was back at home, feeling grateful for dear friends.
But in all those hours sat on the uncomfortable, hard plastic chairs of the waiting room a thought that kept repeating on me was how often do women put aside their own medical or health needs?
