WARNING EDITOR’S
Reaching for my phone, I snapped a picture of my latest ailment and sent it straight to Mum.
A tiny sore piece of itchy, dry skin on my hand.
Have you got your cream? My mum Christine, then 51, typed back.
It was September 2022 and, aged 23, I was used to eczema flare-ups.
I’d had the itchy skin condition since I was a baby.
That weekend, I was staying at my boyfriend Jamie’s house, but I stocked up on cream at the pharmacy.
‘I hope it doesn’t spread,’ I told Jamie, 32.
Working as a property manager, I was in the process of changing jobs.
Had interviews lined up.
