Pick Me Up!

THE BIG PICTURE

Picking up my paintbrush, I was working on my A-level art portfolio.

With art being a huge passion of mine, there was nothing I enjoyed more than being creative.

But experiencing my first big flare-up during my A-levels, it was a struggle.

You see, I’d been diagnosed with juvenile idiopathic arthritis at the age of five.

My parents Chris, 55, and Lynda, 54, had noticed I wasn’t very mobile as a child and took me

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