Finishing my school lunch, I went to run around the playground.
Suddenly, a bruiser of a girl shoved into my stomach.
‘I feel sick,’ I groaned, before projectile vomiting.
Afterwards, I cleaned myself up and went to class.
Being sick was the norm for me, you see.
I was 9 and had been born with cystic fibrosis.
The disease, known as CF, causes sticky mucus to build up in the lungs and digestive system.
It also causes wheezing, coughing, chest infections and difficulty breathing.
Back home, I told my mum, Ann, then 29, what had happened.
‘It's your bad tummy,’ she said. ‘You must sit and let your food digest.’
