Pick Me Up!

HANGOVER FROM HELL

Trailing my suitcase through the door, it was good to be home.

‘Nice to have you back,’ my mum, Karen, then 39, beamed in October 2014.

I was back home in Nottingham, after completing my first term at Liverpool John Moores University.

I was studying Psychology and Criminology and nowI had a weeklong break and was determined to make the most of it.

‘I’m out with the girls this weekend,’ I told Mum.

‘You’re feeling better now then,’ she chuckled.

Just a few weeks before, I felt like I was on death’s door.

Putting it down to freshers’ flu, I wasn’t too concerned.

And as Saturday night rolled around, my friends and I got ready for a night out.

‘How’s uni then?’ I asked the girls, desperate to hear all about their first

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