Pick Me Up!

MY HERO

Rubbing my bloated stomach, I sighed.

Must still be getting over the festive indulgence, I thought to myself.

It was January 2020, and my stomach had been bloated on and off for a few weeks.

I put it down to eating the wrong things, and didn’t really think much more of it.

I assumed the bloating would go away on its own, in time.

But a couple of months later, when I started feeling dizzy, too, I decided to see my GP.

We’d just gone

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