Hello, 

I’m a 29 year old busy mum of three. I started with a cold on the 26th of may that has left me with a barking, painful and very dry cough. I have been exhausted for months now and complained to the doctors of chest pain over a year ago (to which they told me was muscular when I knew it wasn’t) I have had episodes where the veins in my arms and hands swell to three times their size and honestly I can’t explain the fatigue (but have always put it down to my twins being 2 and. Being so so busy all the time) 

I finally had the time and guts to go to the GP today, my fiancé always tells me I’m over reacting about stuff and he had the same cold so I shouldn’t worry etc so I haven’t done. But the last three nights I have been awake between midnight and 4/5am just coughing like a mad woman. To the pppint my ribs hurt so much. Last night he has to wake me as he said when I took a breath in I was spluttering and coughing to breathe back out. He had to wake me up, I had no idea. The GP listened to my chest and said I definitely have a chest infection so she prescribed me antibiotics, she also asked if I would like to have a chest X-ray as she could see I was worried, I said yes Thankyou very much and left with the number to book it. She said she would call me later that afternoon after she had discussed the fact that my eyelid is also randomly dropping Lately with her colleague. 

So the lhone rang rang and it was the GP, she said she had spoken to her colleague and was ringing to check I had booked the appointment, I told her I had and it was the 25th of June. She immediately said ‘NO!’ No no that’s too long, it needs to be today or tommorow, can you get to st lukes hospital tommorow and go to the walk in to have it done please’ I just said yes kind of gobsmacked that she get the need to get it done so quickly. 

So now, here I am after putting my twins to bed, laying in my room terrified of the worst. My fiancé thinks I’m over reacting and says he can’t possibly take the day off work whilst I go for this X-ray (in a walk in appointment hospital that could take lord knows how long until it’s done) so I don’t j ow what I’m going to do as I have the two little ones and a 6 year old who I have to take and pick up from school and the hospital is nearly an hour away. I’m sorry for ranting on here and this is all so petty and useless when I don’t even know if I have anything to worry about or not. But I needed to write this down somewhere.