Making her way onstage ready to address an audience of hundreds as a motivational speaker, 42-year-old Geraldine can feel the rush of adrenaline and the tingle of nerves. But she’s confident and excited to be sharing her story. After all, public speaking is something she never envisaged she would, or could, ever do.
‘I was just two years old when I was hospitalised with measles in 1983, and I suffered a life-threatening allergic reaction to penicillin,’ says mum-of-four Geraldine McGrath from Enniskillen in Northern Ireland. ‘Although I was too young to remember, I’m