Pick Me Up! Special

A MUM'S PROMISE

Watching as my little girl ran around the garden of her grandparent's house, I frowned.

As Emily ran, she would fling her left leg out like she was in a lot of pain.

She hasn’t complained, I thought. I haven’t seen her fall.

‘She must have fallen over,’ my ex-partner’s mum Joan, now 85, suggested when she saw.

‘But I’ve been watching her all day,’ I replied. ‘And I haven’t seen her hurt herself.’

‘Well, she must have done something,’ Joan concluded.

In August 2005, I decided to book Emily, then 18 months, a doctor’s

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