Well, I’m a scientist so I understand and believe in the power of research and, you know, am quite willing to, I mean I know it’s difficult to get people to take part in these things because they don’st want to and I feel as if you appreciate that research is important, that I was willing to put a bit of time into to, you know, to be a guinea pig I guess.

Be a guinea pig, yeah, great.

And, you know, you’sre benefiting other people aren’st you and, it’s very, unless you actually study these things, things are not going to get better for anybody. They’sre not going to get better at diagnosing or understanding the condition, so that was it and a general, on a personal level, you know, nosiness. You know, I wanted to find out a bit more about these conditions because I realised it was, I was a higher risk of developing it myself.

So, from my own sort of personal interest and also concern about myself because I realised I was going to be in a privileged position I think if I was in a situation that I could monitor myself then, you know, as a way of being able to reassure myself as well and I felt that was actually really, really valuable during the study.

It was very straightforward to do, you know, mechanistically, sticking your arm in a tube and pushing a button, you know, is absolutely no problem at all. If anybody was worried about oh, I don’st think I could do it by myself, then, you know, it’s not it’s not a not a difficult thing to do. And I think for me, it increased my awareness of, the potential conditions I could suffer from and I thought that was a very positive thing, so it did make me go away and sort of read a bit more about what it was.

What preeclampsia was and how it would manifest itself and what it would result it.