The symptoms
It was the 23 March 2020, the day the Prime Minister, Boris Johnson put the country into lockdown. Our two-year-old daughter had been rather miserable for a few weeks, not sleeping at all well, crying in pain at night and off her food. To which we thought it was just a bug. She also had a strange swelling which had appeared on her right side of her abdomen in just two weeks. We took her to our doctor for a check-up. The doctor took one look at the strange new bulge on our daughter’s side and told me that this was terrible timing, and she would need immediate surgery.
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