BODY SHOCK

Dribbling the ball across the football pitch, I was at the top of my game.

By the time I was 18, I had played for Cardiff City Ladies, Barry Town and Cardiff County.

And now, I was training for the Welsh trials to play professionally.

With football and my A-levels, life was good.

I was planning on playing football at professional level, and I was also hoping to go to the University of Plymouth to study medicine.

I knew exactly what I wanted to do, and I was working hard to achieve my goals.

Only, in July last year, I came down with an awful UTI, which soon developed into a kidney infection.

The pain in my abdomen had become so bad that I could barely walk, and so I made