Stuck On The Loo

I assumed it was just food poisoning...

-  Emma Rossiter

Waking up with a funny tummy, I spent a morning in May 2017 stuck in the bathroom. ‘Everything OK?’ my partner Elliott, then 26, asked. ‘I think I ate something dodgy yesterday,’ I replied.

We’d been at a friend’s barbecue, enjoying the first day of summer.

But now I seemed to be paying the price.

I assumed I’d be better in a few days. Only, a week flew by and it got worse.

I was on maternity leave with my 3-month-old Ronnie. Had my daughter Scarlett, then 4, to look after, too.

Soon, I noticed I’d started bleeding.

‘I don’t understand what’s happening,’ I worried to my stepmum Liz, 55.

She’s an endoscopy nurse and I wondered if she might be able to help.