Trigger (Miscarriage)
So I decided to do a lil thread on how some hospitals in the UK really undermine black women’s pain & are built on institutional racism this is my sisters story btw I got permission (1/ whatever)

During the summer 2020, my sister was pregnant and called me to say she was coughing and vomiting blood. So I rush to her house and we call 111. The medic on the phone says she will call us back & if things get worse we should call again, go to a hospital or dial 999.

Her symptoms didn’t worsen, she was still just vomiting blood so we didn’t feel the need to call further as explained by the medic. She calls us back after an hour or so & advises her to come to the hospital straight away. Only she would be allowed inside cuz covid so I stayed..

At home and waited for the news. My sister tells them she’s in pain, her body went into ketosis, she was vomiting blood still & she generally felt so weak. But the doctor told her it was just acid & she was vomiting acid. So they gave her omeprazole.

I have suffered from stomach acids since birth and I’ve been on the same meds and never have I ever felt the way she was or reacted as bad as she was, so I knew it couldn’t have been acids and they were really undermining how she felt. They sent her home and said everything’s ok.

So anyways weeks later she went to the hospital still stick to find out the gender of the baby. We are all excited, planning a gender reveal & guessing if it’s a girl or a boy etc.

The lady doing the scan (midwife or doctor not sure) says to her, you’ve had a miscarriage. You’ve been carrying a dead baby for over a month. That’s why you were vomiting blood & becoming weaker. This is something the doctor should have checked when you went that day.

When she went to the hospital that time they didn’t even bother to check the baby, they just dismissed it as stomach acid. They did not take her pain seriously because some non black medical professionals do not think black women feel pain or that their pain matters!