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Hi, I'm Alisha I'm 16.
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I'm a member of the Cambridge Children's Hospital Press Pack, and I have
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a number of health conditions and a number of learning disabilities.
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I have dyspraxia.
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I have sensory processing disorder
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and I also have mild hearing loss in both ears.
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And the challenges I face at hospital are quite stark in terms of
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just especially when like, I’m entering A&E for example
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and you're really sort of in that crisis moment.
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So for my dyspraxia I'd generally need
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the lights be dimmed quite low
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because in terms of like the overstimulation,
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I do get very distressed, especially if I've just come indoors
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and there's a lot of noise, a lot of bright lights
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and I generally need to have the lights quite dim, for people just to talk a bit
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quieter just so I get myself calm and I'm not in this state of sensory overload.
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Well, I just find everything very sort of distressing.
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So what I'd like the doctors and nurses to do
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is maybe move me into, like, a quieter room in advance.
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So an isolation ward and isolation bay and dim the lights.
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So I feel a bit less distressed and that I know what's going on around me
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and I'm bit less disorientated.
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I'd also like,
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for example, just in general access and getting around for the corridors
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to be quite wide, because of my dyspraxia, I struggle with personal space
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and just generally with moving around my balance isn't that great.
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So I would need wide corridors, especially in the new children's hospital.
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I can't really judge space that well and I can't really, I trip over things a lot.
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And so it does make it quite hard to move around corridors and like around people.
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And so wide corridors would be great for people
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to just move around and to just have equal access.
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So I don't trip over things and so that people have more room to move as well.
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So yeah.
