Can I ask a favour?
The Emma Guns Show
Emma Gunavardhana
4.8 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 25 June 2019
⏱️ 7 minutes
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Summary
Let's get ahead of our health, shall we?
Stats quoted in the show:
Cervical screening rates dropping.
Uptake for routine breast screening falls.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, hi and welcome to another episode of the Emma Gunn Show. I am your host, Emma Gunn Awardner, and this midweek show is more of a public service announcement. |
| 0:17.3 | Not that I'm won for PSAs, but this feels like the right thing to do. |
| 0:22.2 | And as ever, I'm going to try to come at this from the most |
| 0:25.1 | helpful angle I can but before I continue I'm just going to say that I am fine |
| 0:30.2 | but my experience of the last two weeks has been pretty interesting. Let's put it that way. In a |
| 0:36.4 | nutshell, I went to the doctor, there was some concern, I've now had all the tests and everything |
| 0:41.7 | is fine. Longtime listeners will know that my mother had breast cancer a few years ago and I had been slow out of fear about going and getting properly checked out. I was checking myself regularly but wanted to get on a |
| 0:54.9 | system where I could be professionally checked. And some of that has to do with eligibility in the |
| 1:00.8 | UK and being the right age, at 41 and a half I went to my doctor and |
| 1:05.8 | asked if it would be possible to have my first mammogram and honestly I just |
| 1:11.3 | did oh and while I'm here, would you mind checking me? |
| 1:14.0 | And I've done this before with my GP because after what happened with my mom, I find the process of self-checking, |
| 1:20.0 | scary, and I don't trust myself. |
| 1:22.0 | I worry that I'm going to miss something and then I agonize and I |
| 1:26.5 | Every now and again I've gone and I've said would you just mind checking and it's always been fine |
| 1:31.2 | This time there was a concern and when the doctor kept going |
| 1:34.5 | over the same area again and again she pulled out some pretty serious paperwork and |
| 1:39.7 | I was referred to hospital. This morning I had all my further tests my first mammogram and |
| 1:45.0 | was discharged and was reassured. I was even given a cuddle because yes |
| 1:49.3 | listener I had a weep and I know I'm very lucky to be sitting here with a clear result because that is not the reality for everybody. |
| 1:57.0 | There is a whole episode or series in the existential crisis I've been going through mentally for the last two weeks |
| 2:03.4 | but this show is about you I'm not saying we won't come back to it but this show is about you |
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