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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