I called my husband that evening and explained. And I was a bit nervous to tell him because I didn’t know how I got this, and was wondering if it’s something I had done. And I still don’t quite understand how I got this.

And that, you know, sort of that’s okay with me because it’s gone now. But I was a bit nervous and he was asking me questions, well he was sort of, How are you And then he was going, But how do you get that And so I didn’t really understand how I got that. I heard about the Papilloma Virus and I learned that, even though I’d had regular smear tests that, not all the NHS, when they do it, they don’t always check for that. And I still don’t quite understand how that works. But yeah that was my concern, that I had done something that had given this, you know, had given me this illness.

I remember asking when I went to see the doctor, the gynaecologist, and asking like what, Have I done something And he reassured me no. But that he thought it might be sexually transmitted. And I thought, I’ve been so un promiscuous. I’ve been such a monogamous, careful, sexually careful person that I just thought, you know, using barrier methods. I just thought how could I have got this. And I still don’t quite understand how, but I did. Despite all my caution, but you know, that’s fine.