Pick Me Up!

LIFE ON THE LINE

Snuggling down under the covers, I relished having the whole bed to myself.

My husband Nathaniel, 35, was away for the weekend, and I spread myself out as I sipped my cuppa and swiped through my phone.

I could already feel myself unwinding after a long day with my two kids, Jay, then 11, and Ruby, then nine. I was also training to be a nurse.

But as I scrolled through Cosmopolitan magazine online, an article drew my eye.

It completely stopped me in my tracks.

I could hardly believe what I was reading.

For years, I’d had a strange brown mark down the middle my right thumb nail.

I’d never thought much of

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