One move could DECAPITATE ME

Getting out of the car and walking into the school gates, I could feel myself limping. ‘You looked like you were drunk,’ Mum said with a concerned tone later that afternoon.

After getting a water parasite in my eye six months earlier, I’d had daily medication and chemicals flushed into me.

So, it was no surprise I was a little off balance.

‘Because the parasite has eaten its way through to your cornea, we can’t be sure if it’s dead or in hibernation,’ doctors at Stoke Mandeville Hospital told me. ‘If it comes back to life, it could go into your bloodstream and kill you.’

At 14, it was hard to accept, but I tried to get on with