SCRUB UP NICELY!

Walking down the hospital corridor in my blue scrubs, I smiled at one of my patients

‘When are you due, dear?’ an older lady asked me.

I felt my cheeks flush red as I touched my tummy quickly.

‘Oh no, I’m just fat,’ I chuckled to her, turning it into a joke.

I didn’t know how else to handle a comment like that.

I’d been mistaken for being pregnant a number of times in work – when really, I was just very overweight.

Every single time, it was a crushing feeling.

At the start of 2017, I wore a dress size 24 and XXL scrubs.

They were the largest size the hospital had, and they were