Health Is Wealth

AFTER A TURBULENT YEAR, LIFESTYLE BLOGGER SERA LILLY IS SLOWING DOWN AND PUTTING HER HEALTH FIRST. SHE SHARES HER STORY

- Sara Bunny

To say that last year was harrowing is an understatement for Sera Lilly. Complications following the birth of her fifth child almost cost her her life, and the road to recovery has been a test of her strength. But Sera doesn’t want to dwell on the negatives. Having learnt first-hand that health is wealth, she’s returned to her love of fitness, developing a healthy lifestyle app (Fit with Sera Lilly) that caters for women of all shapes and sizes, and wants to spread the message to women that their well being is worth putting first.

A close call

“It was a day or two after my caesarean section that I started to feel really unwell. My stomach was huge and really distended, I couldn’t keep anything down and I was in so much pain. A specialist said it was fine and I was discharged. But the pain and distention increased, and my mum, a former intensive care nurse, insisted I go back to hospital. Eventually I was diagnosed with a rare complication called Ogilvie’s syndrome and I had bowel decompression treatment.

I was allowed to go home, but six hours later I was in extreme pain and my daughter called an ambulance.