Pick Me Up!

FEELING PERKIER!

Curled up in bed in the fetal position, I clutched my hot water bottle tightly as I winced.

‘Is it another flare-up?’ my partner Steve asked, and I nodded through the agonising pain.

Ever since I could remember, I’d suffered with terrible digestive issues.

Over the years I went back and forth to my GP, and I had hundreds of different tests.

‘We’re not sure what’s wrong,’ one doctor admitted.

I’d carry on living

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