Pick Me Up!

IT’S NOT OK!

Blinking awake, I glanced at the clock.

It was 3am.

But a sudden pain in my foot had woken me up, and I sighed as I pushed back the duvet.

Grabbing my foot, I could see one of my toes was stuck out at a funny angle.

Without a second thought, I popped it back into place, before getting back under the covers, rolling over and going back to sleep.

It was normal for me.

I’d always been known as ‘Little Miss Clumsy’.

I was constantly popping various bones back into their joints, and I just got used to it.

My mum Mary-Anne, 71, and my grandma Pauline, who was in her 80s when she passed away, were the same.

I didn’t even bother going to the hospital most of the time.

It never stopped me being active, I just

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