PRECIOUS TIME
Nov 26, 2020
4 minutes
WORDS BY HARRIET ROSE-GALE.
Rubbing my arm, I groaned out in pain.
‘It really hurts,’ I cried to my mum, Vivienne, 37.
They told me it was tennis elbow
‘It’s probably just growing pains,’ she assured me.
I was 15 and my right elbow had been giving me some gyp, but I didn’t think it was anything serious.
But when it hadn’t got any better a week later, Mum dragged me to the doctors to get it checked out.
‘It sounds like it’s a tennis elbow,’ my GP told me, sending me home with some painkillers. ‘If it gets any worse, come back.’
The next day
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