Pick Me Up!

CIRCLE OF LIFE

Seeing my phone flash up with my daughter’s name, I smiled.

‘Hi, love,’ I said to Danielle. ’I’m just in between patients, what’s up?’

I worked as a physiotherapist, and spent my days tending to sprained ankles and torn ligaments.

But when there was silence on the end of the line, I knew something was wrong.

‘What is it?’ I said, a knot in my stomach.

Danielle, 33, had been diagnosed with Crohn’s disease when she was a teen, and she managed it well.

But more recently, she’d been back and forth to the doctor with flare-ups.

Over the summer of last year, she was even admitted to hospital a few times, and doctors gave her an MRI scan, which showed it was related to her Crohn’s.

The pain didn’t go away though, and in August, she took

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