SLICE OF LIFE
Getting home from school, I dropped my books and gym bag on the floor.
‘What club was it today?’ my mum Judy, now 60, asked, plating up my dinner.
‘Gymnastics,’ I replied.
All through my childhood, I was sporty and flexible.
But I was also quite a clumsy child–I was always falling over, sometimes ending up in hospital with dislocated joints.
I put it down to being active–I loved dancing, gymnastics and cross-country running.
Little did I know, my fragile joints were caused by a rare, life-changing condition, something I would discover later in life.
At 13 years old, I noticed something else unusual.
Looking in the mirror, I realised I had a strange curve in my spine.
My doctor recognised the condition immediately
‘You’ve got scoliosis,’ he explained, examining my back.
It was a condition that had caused my spine to
