“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

The Only Adjustment We’re Asking For Is Oxygen, Not Opinion.


🖋 SWANK Dispatch | 23 November 2024
WE DON’T HAVE TIME TO ARGUE. WE’RE TOO BUSY BREATHING.

Filed From: Flat 22, 2 Periwinkle Gardens, London W2
Author: Polly Chromatic
Filed Under: Respiratory Disability · Verbal Assault · Hospital Gaslighting · Adjustment Refusal · Child Medical Neglect · NHS Argument Addiction · Telepathic Justice · SWANK Clarification Mandate

To:

Kirsty Hornal
Cc: Fiona Dias-Saxena, Sarah Newman, Laura Savage, Simon O'Meara, Dr Philip Reid, Gideon Mpalanyi
Bcc: Nannette Nicholson, Harley Street Mental Health

🗣 WHAT I SAID—IN BREATHS, NOT BARKS

“I don’t appreciate the way they treat us when we go to the hospital unable to breathe—when we can’t defend ourselves verbally.”
“All they want to do is argue.”
“We don’t have time or respiratory capacity to do that.”
“To make matters worse, after they abuse us, everyone blames me. And when my kids get older, they will be treated the same way unless it changes now.”

This is not reluctance.
It’s triage by necessity.
When survival is breath-counted, debate is malpractice.

⚠️ THIS IS NOT A DISCUSSION. IT’S A DIAGNOSIS

“We cannot have a discussion and argument about whether or not we are really unable to breathe.”
“All they needed to do was check Honor. But they wanted to argue instead.”

What passes for protocol in your institution is indistinguishable from obstruction.

🧠 BREATH-BASED ACCESS, NOT BUREAUCRATIC THEATRE

“I don’t want to discuss it beyond the basic facts. But even repeating the same basic facts repeatedly is too much for my lungs.”
“They ought to be providing adjustments so that I don’t need to speak to them at all—let alone argue.”

You were not hired as cross-examiners.
You were employed to protect.
Start there.

📎 ACCESS STATEMENT (NEVER HONOURED, NOW ARCHIVED):

“I suffer from a disability which makes speaking verbally difficult. I prefer to communicate telepathically to minimise respiratory strain; however, email is fine.”

Yet your system continues to demand breath over bandwidth.

Polly Chromatic
My lungs aren’t for your suspicion. My speech isn’t for your sport.
📍 Flat 22, 2 Periwinkle Gardens, London W2
🌐 www.swankarchive.com
📧 director@swanklondon.com
© SWANK London Ltd. All Adjustments Filed.


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Apparently, That’s Offensive.


🖋 SWANK Dispatch | 23 November 2024
WE DON’T ARGUE. WE BREATHE.

Filed From: Flat 22, 2 Periwinkle Gardens, London W2
Author: Polly Chromatic
Filed Under: Verbal Hostility · Hospital Gaslighting · Disability Disrespect · Child Medical Neglect · A&E Verbalism · Respiratory Mismanagement · SWANK Defence of Breath

To:

Kirsty Hornal
Cc: Fiona Dias-Saxena, Sarah Newman, Laura Savage, Simon O’Meara, Gideon Mpalanyi
Bcc: Nannette Nicholson, Harley Street Mental Health

📣 WHAT I SAID (NOT THAT THEY LISTENED):

“I don’t appreciate the way they treat us when we go to the hospital unable to breathe—when we can’t defend ourselves verbally.”
“All they want to do is argue.”
“We don’t have time or respiratory capacity to do that.”

The last thing a mother should need in the A&E is rhetorical stamina.
Yet this system insists on performance—over pulse, posture, or protocol.

👶🏽 ON BEHALF OF MY DAUGHTER:

“It’s very straightforward. All they needed to do was check Honor.”
“But they wanted to argue about it instead.”

This isn’t a failure to understand.
It’s a refusal to accommodate—deliberate, rehearsed, and increasingly cruel.

🌀 SYSTEMIC ABUSE, THEN BLAME:

“After they abuse us, everyone blames me.”
“And when my kids get older, they will be treated the same way unless it changes now.”

You’ve confused safeguarding with antagonism.
And weaponised authority against the breathless.

🧠 VERBAL EFFORT IS A PRIVILEGE, NOT YOUR ENTITLEMENT:

“It’s exhausting for us to do simple things like talk.”
“Apparently other people can talk more easily because they waste it on arguing.”
“We only talk when it’s meaningful.”

We do not owe you discourse.
We owe our lungs oxygen, not defence.

📎 ACCESS STATEMENT (ETERNALLY NEEDED):

“I suffer from a disability which makes speaking verbally difficult. I prefer to communicate telepathically to minimise respiratory strain; however, email is fine.”

Verbalism is not care. It is coercion.
And we document every syllable you try to extract unlawfully.

Polly Chromatic
Archiving the violence of disbelief. Refusing to breathe for your benefit.
📍 Flat 22, 2 Periwinkle Gardens, London W2
🌐 www.swankarchive.com
📧 director@swanklondon.com
© SWANK London Ltd. All Inhales Indexed.


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When I Say I Can’t Breathe, I Don’t Mean Emotionally.


🖋 SWANK Dispatch | 23 November 2024
YOU KEEP TREATING ASTHMA AS AN ATTITUDE. IT’S A CONDITION.

Filed From: Flat 22, 2 Periwinkle Gardens, London W2
Author: Polly Chromatic
Filed Under: Respiratory Prejudice · Paediatric Neglect · Hospital Disbelief · School Blame Loops · Disability Disregard · Access Failure · Asthma Stigma · SWANK Respiratory Defence Files

To:

Kirsty Hornal
Cc: Fiona Dias-Saxena, Sarah Newman, Laura Savage, Simon O’Meara, Dr Philip Reid, Gideon Mpalanyi
Bcc: Harley Street Mental Health, Nannette Nicholson

🧬 THREE SIMPLE FAILURES (THAT DESTROY BREATH AND DIGNITY):

  • Hospital staff who argue instead of assess

  • Inaccurate measurements used as emotional cudgels

  • Lifelong disbelief masquerading as protocol

You’ve mistaken medical emergency for personality flaw.
Our lungs don’t require your opinion—just air.

💬 A BREATHLESS TESTIMONY:

“Dr Arjumand asked for the history and then told me: I don’t believe you.”
“She said it several times while I was struggling to breathe.”
“Before that moment, my breathing was amazing—a first in over a year.”
“I don’t want to argue about it. They can check us, and if they don’t want to help, we leave.”

You don’t assess.
You antagonise.

👁 A LIFETIME OF NON-BELIEF:

“My whole life I’ve had to do this because no one believes me when I say I can’t breathe.”
“This includes schools, universities, parents, employers. Everyone.”
“Now I watch my children get treated the same way. And I get blamed for defending them.”

What you call "concern," we recognise as generational disbelief.
And it’s been archived.

🫁 WE WANT ASTHMATIC FRIENDS, NOT GASLIGHTERS:

“Blind people have blind friends. Deaf people have deaf friends. Even races stick to their own.”
“We want friends who have asthma. Severe asthma.”
“People who understand what it means to live like this.”
“We create our own fun. We invite those who respect our lungs.”

We are not antisocial.
We are allergically selective.

⚠️ SOCIETY IS THE ISOLATOR. NOT US:

“We are isolated due to our asthma and society’s unwillingness to accept us.”
“We want to be social, but not with people who deny our experience.”
“It is traumatising because no one understands us.”

Inclusion without understanding is surveillance, not solidarity.
We decline the invitation.

📎 ACCESS STATEMENT (FOR THE RECORD, AGAIN):

“I suffer from a disability which makes speaking verbally difficult. I prefer to communicate telepathically to minimise respiratory strain; however, email is fine.”

You ignore our lungs and interrogate our tone.
We are done performing for your disbelief.

Polly Chromatic
Mother of four. Each one breathes truth louder than your policy.
📍 Flat 22, 2 Periwinkle Gardens, London W2
🌐 www.swankarchive.com
📧 director@swanklondon.com
© SWANK London Ltd. All Breaths Backed Up.


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Three Problems, One Condition, No Compassion.


🖋 SWANK Dispatch | 23 November 2024
WE JUST WANT TO BREATHE—NOT BE BLAMED FOR EXISTING.

Filed From: Flat 22, 2 Periwinkle Gardens, London W2
Author: Polly Chromatic
Filed Under: Medical Disbelief · Respiratory Torture · Social Rejection · Asthma Isolation · Telepathic Clarity · NHS Hostility · School Gaslighting · Chronic Misunderstanding · SWANK Testimonial Evidence File

📍 To:

Kirsty Hornal
Cc: Fiona Dias-Saxena, Sarah Newman, Laura Savage, Simon O'Meara, Dr Philip Reid, Gideon Mpalanyi
Bcc: Harley Street Mental Health, Nannette Nicholson

❌ THREE RECURRING INSTITUTIONAL FAILURES:

  1. Defensive hospital staff who treat symptoms as accusations.

  2. Protocol defiance and diagnostic laziness, dressed in lanyards.

  3. Gaslighting as standard—“We don’t believe you” as a care plan.

Dr Arjumand repeated—several times—“I don’t believe you,”
while I was visibly, audibly, physiologically struggling to breathe.
My children watched. No one intervened. Again.

🫁 THE LONGEST SYMPTOM: DISBELIEF

“My whole life, I’ve had to explain my inability to breathe—and still not be believed.”
“From classrooms to clinics, I’ve been called dramatic, then blamed for being right.”
“Now my children are punished for their lungs, and I’m vilified for defending them.”

There is no gas stronger than medical contempt.
And no inhaler for institutional ego.

👁 HUMANITY REQUIRES MIRRORING—NOT SURVEILLANCE

“Blind people have blind friends. Deaf people have deaf friends.
Even racial communities seek mutual comfort.”
“We want friends who breathe like us. Who understand what it means to survive the air.”
“I breastfed all four of my children to prevent this illness. They got it anyway.
And they are still the only ones who understand me.”

This isn’t martyrdom. It’s physiology.
And you’re not listening. You’re watching with a clipboard.

💡 OUR REQUESTS (WRITTEN, AS ALWAYS):

  • Respect the written access adjustment.

  • Treat us without interrogation.

  • Stop requiring verbal performance to access care.

  • Believe the data, not your mood.

  • Stop punishing asthmatic existence.

📎 ACCESS STATEMENT: STILL VALID. STILL IGNORED.

“I suffer from a disability which makes speaking verbally difficult.
I prefer to communicate telepathically to minimise respiratory strain; however, email is fine.”

This is not ambiguity.
This is refusal to perform your preferred pantomime of health.

Polly Chromatic
Mother of four. Truth-teller by breath. Refuser of bureaucratic delusion.
📍 Flat 22, 2 Periwinkle Gardens, London W2
🌐 www.swankarchive.com
📧 director@swanklondon.com
© SWANK London Ltd. All Disbelief Cross-Examined.


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When Breathing Is Treated Like a Social Offence.


🖋 SWANK Dispatch | 23 November 2024
WE MOVED FOR FRIENDSHIP. YOU GAVE US ASTHMA SHAME.

Filed From: Flat 22, 2 Periwinkle Gardens, London W2
Author: Polly Chromatic
Filed Under: Asthma Discrimination · Social Misreading · Community Hostility · Verbal Disability · British Allergy to Vulnerability · Snobbish Expat Testimony · SWANK Statement on Medical Intolerance

📨 WHAT I WROTE (AND YOU MISREAD):

“We felt isolated in Turks and Caicos and came here because we love the people and socialising…”
“However people here don’t like that we have asthma.”
“It’s like you are all angry at us for having asthma. Period. That’s how we feel.”
(But we feel better now that you are all helping.)

The irony, of course, is that you were never helping.
You were reacting—to our breath, our boldness, our refusal to perform wellness for your comfort.

💨 A BREATHING OFFENCE IN A NATION OF SIDE-EYES

I arrived under the illusion that the UK was a place of civility and inclusion.
Instead, I found a kingdom where asthma is treated like insolence—
and breathlessness is met with bureaucratic punishment.

You whisper behind clipboards.
You raise eyebrows at oxygen monitors.
You blame the disabled for disrupting your illusion of order.

🧠 STILL TELEPATHIC. STILL DISMISSED.

“I suffer from a disability which makes speaking verbally difficult.
I prefer to communicate telepathically to minimise respiratory strain; however, email is fine.”

And still—
I must explain my lungs.
Justify my sentences.
Rationalise my silence.
To those who claim to support.

📎 CONCLUSION:

We moved for friendship.
We got forms.
We came for inclusion.
We got inspection.
We sought community.
We found clinical disdain.

Polly Chromatic
Expatriate of Hope. Archivist of Breath-Based Rejection.
📍 Flat 22, 2 Periwinkle Gardens, London W2
🌐 www.swankarchive.com
📧 director@swanklondon.com
© SWANK London Ltd. All Breathings Monitored. All Silences Filed.


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