Thank Goodness For My Guardian Angel Night Nurse

This is a very personal post for me to share

I want to do a massive shout out to the “night nurse” (I know different places/countries might call them something different) who dealt with my needs on Monday night

Normally I wouldn’t bother anyone with heavy periods related to my PCOS, but that night something was seriously not normal. The nurse I spoke to was a similar age to me who also has PCOS. It felt so comforting to know that someone truly understood PCOS

We chatted for a while and explained my symptoms. When I mentioned that my body had just expelled a 10 – 12 cm diameter blood clot/fibroid/lining amongst many others and sent through a pic, things kicked in. (these have been sent off for analysis and other tests will be conducted

As Im on my own, she organised for someone to come to my house and monitor me in case I needed to go to hospital. This person who came also has PCOS and like me was never able to carry a pregnancy to term

I have never been so grateful as I was genuinely scared that night. I had been tripping with a fever since Sunday that didn’t stop until Tues night and hadn’t eaten anything since Sun apart from a handful of nuts and a banana (I lost 5kg between Mon night and Thurs morning)

They stayed with me over the next 3 hours until the worst was over, and I can honestly say I have lost my inhibition after having to be helped from my bath. They helped me get into bed, made me sweet tea (an old wives remedy but it does work)

We talked about some of our miscarriages which felt right at the time. For me, I talked about my first one with Neil (but not my first) at 10 weeks, and how bless him he thought a change of scene would help, so off he drove us from West Malling in Kent to Iron Gorge in early December…. he hadn’t factored in how my body reacted to the after effect

The second miscarriage I talked about and the most emotional was when I lost my baby at 19 weeks. It was a girl and I had named her Susan May after our two grandmothers (even though at that age, you didn”t at the time get the support given to those whose babies died later in pregnancy)

I usually am careful about having raspberry leaf tea daily as well as munch on a couple of Brazil nuts and a handful of almonds daily to help regulate my hormones. I was shocked to realise I stopped doing this daily ritual since mid September in Germany (I was upset by a personal matter

I hope I can still attend the CDAA conference in a few days. One thing I know is if I do make it, I will take time out from sessions if needed and pop upstairs for a rest (I booked a room at the hotel – so glad I did that months ago

So why am I saying all this?

🙏 PCOS needs to be talked about more

🙏 If you have access to a night nurse, don’t feel ashamed or that you are wasting their time. I used them a couple of times during the Covid lockdown years. I felt in such safe, caring and professional hands on Monday night from the time I rang till they left. Who would have thought they would deem it necessary to extend my care for 3 hours, and we also liased with a Dr during that time