LIKE A BUTTERFLY

Finishing up the cooking, it was time for dinner.

It was 17 September 2018 and my daughter Angelina, then 14, chatted away, telling me all about her week at school.

She grabbed some glasses out of the cupboard and one of them slipped out of her hand.

‘Oh no!’ I gasped. ‘Don’t worry, I’ll clean it up.’

Then the same thing happened again.

‘What are you doing?’ I laughed.

‘I don’t know,’ Angelina said. ‘I’m so sorry!’

When it happened a third time, I panicked and she started sobbing.

Angelina wasn’t one to drop things and be clumsy, it was very strange.

My partner David, 50, and I decided to call the non-emergency line and they sent an ambulance round.

After the doctors saw her at Sydney Hospital, near where we live, they put it down to stress