All my health checks were good ...the worry about blanking off and forgetfulness was put down to pandemic lockdown topsy turvy time. Others too had this. But the specialist did think good to perform CT head given my DV history and 20 years of head trauma from two toxic marriages!! We really do need to be mindful of DV survivors needing follow up health checks over lifetime. Memory Check I also had another check up from the ENT specialist at Mount Vernon to exclude throat cancer.
I have shared with you before that I can get choking panic attacks with feeling of being strangled..from the many attempts of strangulation by perpetrators. It can come on when I touch the dark toxic past pain as part of my PTSD.. but I have had also ( as now) a more mechanical anatomical problem of difficulty in swallowing & a lump in my throat. But ENT endoscopy at Out Patients urgent appointment revealed healthy throat, vocal chords. Thank goodness.. the ENT specialist so kind and we viewed the endoscope recording together.. full respect for me being a fellow health professional. He concluded it was sensation and other patients presented with such. That is why he had the endoscope to help immediately assess new referrals. I could have skipped and jumped for joy. I have nursed cancer patients with care & love but never relish being one. Though the kind caring of the specialist would have made me feel in good healing hands if I had to face cancer.
So with health reassured & my lockdown sitdown zooming sciatica healed ..I am zooming literally all over again campaigning. I do take my walking stick folded in my bag if out for a great length of time just in case my legs and arthritic knees ache too much.
NOW the need to review the DWP support of DV survivors needs more campaign to get voices heard. It is not helping with parliament being in disarray.. constitutional rules messed with, code of conduct under question and we still have covid restrictions on public lobbying in the central lobby and attending APPGs & Committee meetings..
