Breathing While Documented: How Hospitals Manufacture Safeguarding from Medical Data

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🖋️ SWANK Emergency Dispatch
I Came for Oxygen. They Wanted a Confession.

Filed: 14 February 2024

Labels: Medical Neglect, Safeguarding Retaliation, Breathing While Mothering, Evidence Suppression, Clinical Coercion, Data Denial

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⚜ WELCOME TO SWANK

An Archive of ✦ Elegance, ✦ Complaint, ✦ and Unapologetic Standards
by a Mother Harassed by the State in Two Countries for Over a Decade.

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❝ I Was Too Breathless to Speak, So I Offered My Book. She Told Me to Hold It Myself. ❞

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A Detailed Reconstruction of 4 February 2024 — Chelsea & Westminster Emergency Department

Condition: Documented asthma exacerbation, SpO2 90–95%, peak flow critical.
Arrival: Uber — too weak to walk.

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✦ What I Brought

• Peak flow readings, meticulously logged in a notebook

• SpO2 data from Apple Watch & Smart Flow meter

• Oxygen levels with timestamps

• History of treatment refusal

• Body cam recording (audio preserved, video pending)

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✦ What They Did

Initial Nurse Response:
She asked for my peak flow. I offered my notebook.
❝ Hold your own book. ❞

I whispered:
❝ I can’t breathe. ❞
She said:
❝ You can breathe. ❞

She refused to share my oxygen readings, moved me to another cubicle where a different nurse gave a nebuliser.

Medical records from the previous night were “missing.” The game of lost files began.

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✦ The “St Thomas Trigger”

They discovered I’d attended St Thomas Hospital. Then:

❝ Do you have four children? ❞

Left alone thirty minutes, then a senior nurse arrived—no physician.

“There was an incident last night at St. Thomas. We need to ensure your children are safe.”
“We may need to call the police.”

I replied:
❝ Go ahead. But treat me first. I can’t breathe. ❞

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✦ The Real Problem

They weren’t responding to a medical emergency.
They escalated a safeguarding narrative based on false records from another hospital — records I was disputing.

This is retaliatory referral — the epidemic behind every fabricated concern.

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✦ Final Treatment

After explaining I was refused a second nebuliser the night before, they relented and gave:

• A second nebuliser

• Prednisone

• Permission to leave

But only after proving compliance — not illness.

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✦ This Post is a Record

🩺 I was not erratic.
📚 I was not unprepared.
🧾 I brought data.
🎥 I brought proof.

Yet, they framed the narrative around risk, not treatment.

Because, to the system, a mother with evidence is not a patient.
She is a threat.

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Filed under: Institutional Gaslighting, Referral Retaliation, Oxygen as Leverage, Parenthood as Risk Category, Clinical Misconduct

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✒️ Polly Chromatic
Founder & Director, SWANK London Ltd
📍 Flat 22, 2 Periwinkle Gardens, London W2
📧 director@swanklondon.com
🌐 www.swanklondon.com

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Polly Chromatic exposes retaliatory hospital referral amid severe asthma attack, highlighting medical neglect and institutional gaslighting.