“Though the Witch knew the Deep Magic, there is a magic deeper still which she did not know. Her knowledge goes back only to the dawn of time. But if she could have looked a little further back… she would have known that when a willing victim who had committed no treachery was killed in a traitor’s stead, the Table would crack and Death itself would start working backward.” - Aslan, C.S. Lewis, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
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Polite Enough to Be Ignored: When Calm Requests Precede Procedural Retaliation


⟡ “It’s Like They’re Angry I Brought My Children to the ER” ⟡
A Polite Appointment Request That Also Serves as a Micro-Complaint Against NHS Hostility

Filed: 22 November 2024
Reference: SWANK/NHS/EMAIL-04
📎 Download PDF – 2024-11-22_SWANK_Email_Reid_KingAppointmentRequest_DisabilityDisclosure_NHSDismissal.pdf
Email to GP Dr. Philip Reid requesting an appointment for one child and noting NHS hostility toward emergency care requests. Quiet, careful, and legally relevant.

I. What Happened

On 22 November 2024, Polly Chromatic sent a measured request to Dr. Philip Reid regarding her son, King. She expressed flexibility with scheduling and confirmed she would continue to monitor his condition at home until seen.

But embedded in this simple note is a quiet alarm bell:

“It’s like the hospital staff are angry at me for even bringing my kids to the ER.”

The message, copied to social worker Kirsty Hornal and Bcc’d to a legal contact, also restated a disability-related boundary: written-only communication due to verbal impairment.

This is not a crisis email. It’s a record of calm concern delivered to an indifferent system.

II. What the Complaint Establishes

  • Medical responsibility was proactively exercised by the parent

  • The request was reasonable, timely, and deferential

  • NHS staff had already displayed animosity for accessing care

  • Disability disclosure was restated for the record

  • The sender’s composure stands in contrast to any later claims of escalation or non-engagement

III. Why SWANK Logged It

Because this is what parents are told to do: ask nicely, accommodate the system, and remain flexible.

And it still didn’t work.

SWANK logs this as a baseline evidentiary marker — one that neutralises future accusations of hostility or avoidance. It also forms part of the longer chain of written-only declarations that were ignored or dismissed.

This is the politeness that came before the rage.
And it was ignored, too.

IV. SWANK’s Position

This wasn’t aggression.
It was responsible concern — treated like an inconvenience.

We do not accept that reasonable medical requests should be punished with suspicion.
We do not accept that written-only disability notices must be repeated endlessly to matter.
We will document every moment calmness was used against the vulnerable — and every record that was too soft to be taken seriously.

⟡ This Dispatch Has Been Formally Archived by SWANK London Ltd. ⟡

Every entry is timestamped.
Every sentence is jurisdictional.
Every structure is protected.

To mimic this format without licence is not homage. It is breach.
We do not permit imitation. We preserve it as evidence.

This is not a blog.
This is a legal-aesthetic instrument.
Filed with velvet contempt, preserved for future litigation.

Because evidence deserves elegance.
And retaliation deserves an archive.

© 2025 SWANK London Ltd. All formatting and structural rights reserved.
Use requires express permission or formal licence. Unlicensed mimicry will be cited — as panic, not authorship.


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Belief as Treatment: Why Refusing to Trust Disabled Patients Is a Public Health Crisis


⟡ “This Is THE Problem” ⟡
A Multi-Generational Asthma Testimony on Medical Disbelief, Social Misfit, and the Right to Be Believed While Suffocating

Filed: 23 November 2024
Reference: SWANK/NHS/EMAIL-05
📎 Download PDF – 2024-11-23_SWANK_Email_Reid_HospitalDisbelief_DisabilityWitnessNarrative.pdf
Email sent to medical, legal, and safeguarding authorities detailing the traumatic impact of disbelief toward a disabled mother and her asthmatic children — both socially and medically.

I. What Happened

In this message, Polly Chromatic writes plainly: there are three problems —

  1. Defensive hospital staff

  2. Basic failure to follow protocol

  3. Being treated like a liar while trying to breathe

This email was sent to Dr. Philip Reid, Kirsty Hornal, Sarah Newman, Fiona Dias-Saxena, Laura Savage, and others. It documents:

  • A direct quote from a doctor who said: “I don’t believe you” during a respiratory flare

  • The recurrence of disbelief across schools, hospitals, and social work settings

  • A refusal to have her children endure the same

  • The social need for peers who share their condition — not just tolerate it

It closes with a statement of grief, resolve, and perspective:

“I feel blessed that they have it. I can’t however stand to see them suffer the way I have.”

II. What the Complaint Establishes

  • Medical trauma from being dismissed in the middle of acute breathing distress

  • Chronic disbelief of both verbal and non-verbal disability symptoms

  • Social exclusion as a direct outcome of medical scepticism

  • Cultural insight into why affinity-based communities matter for marginalised health conditions

  • Witness-level account of procedural neglect, generational asthma, and institutional cruelty

III. Why SWANK Logged It

Because this email is not about one doctor, or one A&E visit.
It is about disbelief as policy, and the violence of being told “you’re fine” while gasping for air.

It’s also a sociological diagnosis: of why children raised in systems that deny disability must form private worlds — not for retreat, but for survival.

SWANK logs it not as a grievance, but as a testimonial archive — one that collapses law, health, and anthropology into a single witness statement.

IV. SWANK’s Position

This wasn’t overreaction. It was resistance from someone who’s spent a lifetime explaining why she can’t talk — to people who never listen.

We do not accept that verbal disability must be disbelieved until collapse.
We do not accept that asthma must be proven through trauma to qualify for care.
We will document every doctor who said “I don’t believe you” — and every breath that had to answer them.

⟡ This Dispatch Has Been Formally Archived by SWANK London Ltd. ⟡

Every entry is timestamped.
Every sentence is jurisdictional.
Every structure is protected.

To mimic this format without licence is not homage. It is breach.
We do not permit imitation. We preserve it as evidence.

This is not a blog.
This is a legal-aesthetic instrument.
Filed with velvet contempt, preserved for future litigation.

Because evidence deserves elegance.
And retaliation deserves an archive.

© 2025 SWANK London Ltd. All formatting and structural rights reserved.
Use requires express permission or formal licence. Unlicensed mimicry will be cited — as panic, not authorship.


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Documented Obsessions