🖋️ 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
⚜ 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.
❝ I Was Too Breathless to Speak, So I Offered My Book. She Told Me to Hold It Myself. ❞
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.
✦ 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)
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)
✦ 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.
✦ 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. ❞
✦ 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.
✦ 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.
✦ 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.
Filed under: Institutional Gaslighting, Referral Retaliation, Oxygen as Leverage, Parenthood as Risk Category, Clinical Misconduct
✒️ 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.