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Louise Thompson: Maternity care is bleak! Mental and physical scars of my traumatic birth
He's like a slow mover, a slow thinker, sometimes very frustratingly.
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Louise Thompson: Maternity care is bleak! Mental and physical scars of my traumatic birth
I'm like, how does your brain work at this like slow frequency?
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Louise Thompson: Maternity care is bleak! Mental and physical scars of my traumatic birth
And I'm so fast.
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Louise Thompson: Maternity care is bleak! Mental and physical scars of my traumatic birth
And sometimes I'm like, well, maybe you're just not as clever as me.
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Louise Thompson: Maternity care is bleak! Mental and physical scars of my traumatic birth
He won't mind me saying that.
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Louise Thompson: Maternity care is bleak! Mental and physical scars of my traumatic birth
But equally, I'm like, but you are, you're like the, it's like the tortoise and the hare.
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Louise Thompson: Maternity care is bleak! Mental and physical scars of my traumatic birth
And actually, you're still getting to places.
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Louise Thompson: Maternity care is bleak! Mental and physical scars of my traumatic birth
Like, you're still moving.
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Louise Thompson: Maternity care is bleak! Mental and physical scars of my traumatic birth
He's decided this year to go, he's doing like an Ironman in Hawaii.
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Louise Thompson: Maternity care is bleak! Mental and physical scars of my traumatic birth
He doesn't care if like, he doesn't achieve anything except for like that one big thing.
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Louise Thompson: Maternity care is bleak! Mental and physical scars of my traumatic birth
Yeah.
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Louise Thompson: Maternity care is bleak! Mental and physical scars of my traumatic birth
And I'm like, that's actually great.
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Louise Thompson: Maternity care is bleak! Mental and physical scars of my traumatic birth
In my mind, I'm thinking, and I know people like this, you know, a lot of people in this same industry as well, who...
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Louise Thompson: Maternity care is bleak! Mental and physical scars of my traumatic birth
Don't take holidays.
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Louise Thompson: Maternity care is bleak! Mental and physical scars of my traumatic birth
You know, my brother's a culprit.
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Louise Thompson: Maternity care is bleak! Mental and physical scars of my traumatic birth
He's like, I couldn't possibly take a holiday unless it's tied in with something to do with work.
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Louise Thompson: Maternity care is bleak! Mental and physical scars of my traumatic birth
And I'm like, you have to because as someone who has spent time, you know, waking up from like an awful kind of like life-changing, life-threatening surgery, in those moments, you do really think...
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Louise Thompson: Maternity care is bleak! Mental and physical scars of my traumatic birth
okay, this is all a game.
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Louise Thompson: Maternity care is bleak! Mental and physical scars of my traumatic birth
Let's just make sure to definitely carve out the time to hang out with some cool people and just be silly.
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Louise Thompson: Maternity care is bleak! Mental and physical scars of my traumatic birth
And I do have a lot of respect for people that kind of just move.