'I thought the NHS would be equipped for it'
She can’t just hop in the shower, pop upstairs when she forgets something or take a walk from one end of a large shopping centre to the other without support.
Laura knows she has to make allowances for her body to help it do things many don’t think twice about, yet she wasn’t prepared for just how difficult a smear test would be. There the nurse asked her to lay on the bed and “bring her feet to her bum, dropping her knees to the side” – a common position for the exam to be carried out in, but one Laura simply cannot do.
Laura’s results came back abnormal, and she was referred to the clinic at Stobhill Hospital for a colposcopy.As previously reported in the Glasgow Times Don’t Fear the Smear campaign, research has found disabled women are among the least likely to attend routine appointments.
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