Priya Alexander

So for whatever reason, it didn't go there.

And my care was through public and private.

So there's, you know, a whole thing about, you know, the

your information is not being shared from either of those two very fluidly.

So I think, you know, it's helpful to have all your information on the My Health Record.

And as you said, I'm a nurse, but even when you're going through all this, you forget things.

I forgot, you know, I was making notes for what to ask and it was kind of helpful to have all that information there so I could process and also talk to my specialist a bit more about it.

So I think that's kind of the important thing as well.

No, not currently.

So it's mainly other results.

Some of the discharge summaries from my, have been in there, but not so much from the public system at the moment.

So yeah.

I don't know if I'm aware enough, honestly, at the minute.

I just feel like I'm constantly juggling so many balls and the kids and I do have days where it's more difficult and perhaps that is brain fog, but it's a term that I hear often from patients and it can be after a viral illness.

It can be after many things, but certainly more discussion about this thickness, these cognitive symptoms during menopause and perimenopause.

I'm Priya Alexander on Wurundjeri land.

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In the news though, something that I get quite excited about, there is a new vaccine, the RSV vaccine, which people might know as OREXI, which is going to be available on the National Immunisation Program from mid-May this year.

So over 2 million Australians will be eligible.

People aged 75 and over and First Nations Australians aged 60 and over will be eligible for this vaccine, which is normally very expensive, Norman.