Lifestyle | Foodie | Family | Bryony on Instagram: "Motherhood. A form of sacrifice that you don't appreciate - sacrificing sleep, your body, your time, your health. I'd do it again in any lifetime but it's really hit home the pressures we put on our bodies just for being human, for being a woman, regardless of having babies or not and so much affects our health that we don't realise - stress, food, environment, genetics, mental state and so on. The reason for this 𝘦𝘱𝘪𝘤 monologue is yesterday I was told I had a mini stroke also known as Transient Ischemic Attack (TIA) and I'm being referred to a Stroke Unit in Scunthorpe for further investigation & to talk prevention of a bigger stroke. They think the reason being is I'm post partum, as I didn't give birth that long ago I have higher risk factors of things like Venous Thromboembolism (blood clots), hypertension, pre-eclampsia, anemia in the first few weeks post birth - there's of course lots of other issues women can experience like incontinence, depression, wound complications, pain, fatigue, infection and so on. I suppose the reason for sharing this is I'm processing the whole thing, I'm still processing the fact I even have a baby! The last 2 weeks I had 3 incidents with my vision - the first couple of times I thought it was my glasses so I just ignored it happened but the third time my vision was affected I was at my nephews assembly and I was with my mum and sister who I turned to and just commented on my eyes feeling weird & I was told that the left eye was turning inwards and prior to that I had a sporadic painful headache that started and stopped in about ten minutes. I'd booked at Specsavers and explained what happened and they said I need to go to a&e in the next 12 to 24 hours & I said was there any need for all that as it was probably the weather but I rang 111 and then spoke to a clinician who booked me at Louth hospital for 10.50pm but they then refused to see me as it wasn't an injury or infection, so I rang 111 again and they just said to go to the emergency department & again I said "shall I just leave it as it seems alot of time to waste for nothing" 🙈 moral to the story is - listen to advice because I could've missed this massive warning"

bryonyannie on June 29, 2025: "Motherhood. A form of sacrifice that you don't appreciate - sacrificing sleep, your body, your time, your health. I'd do it again in any lifetime but it's really hit home the pressures we put on our bodies just for being human, for being a woman, regardless of having babies or not and so much affects our health that we don't realise - stress, food, environment, genetics, mental state and so on. The reason for this 𝘦𝘱𝘪𝘤 monologue is yesterday I was told I had a mini stroke also known as Transient Ischemic Attack (TIA) and I'm being referred to a Stroke Unit in Scunthorpe for further investigation & to talk prevention of a bigger stroke. They think the reason being is I'm post partum, as I didn't give birth that long ago I have higher risk factors of things like Venous Thromboembolism (blood clots), hypertension, pre-eclampsia, anemia in the first few weeks post birth - there's of course lots of other issues women can experience like incontinence, depression, wound complications, pain, fatigue, infection and so on. I suppose the reason for sharing this is I'm processing the whole thing, I'm still processing the fact I even have a baby! The last 2 weeks I had 3 incidents with my vision - the first couple of times I thought it was my glasses so I just ignored it happened but the third time my vision was affected I was at my nephews assembly and I was with my mum and sister who I turned to and just commented on my eyes feeling weird & I was told that the left eye was turning inwards and prior to that I had a sporadic painful headache that started and stopped in about ten minutes. I'd booked at Specsavers and explained what happened and they said I need to go to a&e in the next 12 to 24 hours & I said was there any need for all that as it was probably the weather but I rang 111 and then spoke to a clinician who booked me at Louth hospital for 10.50pm but they then refused to see me as it wasn't an injury or infection, so I rang 111 again and they just said to go to the emergency department & again I said "shall I just leave it as it seems alot of time to waste for nothing" 🙈 moral to the story is - listen to advice because I could've missed this massive warning".