A FLESH-EATING BUG NEARLY KILLED ME
‘I’D ALWAYS LOOKED UP TO DAD AS A HERO’
The sound of my phone buzzing next to my hospital bed roused me from sleep. It was the early hours of the morning in August 2015. ‘Dad has stage 4 cancer,’ my sister Monya, then 48, told me tearfully. I was pregnant with twin girls, and had been in Bath Royal United Hospital for a month with pre-eclampsia. I was in such shock, almost immediately my blood pressure rocketed, and the twins were delivered nine weeks early by caesarean section the following day.
My dad Abdellah, 79, had been having health issues since 2013. It began with problems with his bladder and difficulty passing urine. He
