The road to Shirley Keane O'Brien Multiple Sclerosis (MS) diagnosis was not a smooth one. “It wasn’t like a sudden “something’s wrong”,” she says, but rather a number of years of knee weakness and back pain that was assumed to be sciatica, or maybe cause to have her knee replaced.
It was mid 2020 when Dr Chia Tan began noticing an increase in a different type of request at his aesthetic clinic. Previously, clients would have come looking to address a perceived imperfection in their upper face. Now there was a new focus the jawline.
At the beginning of Emma Heatherington’s latest novel, a character tells the protagonist “life can change in the blink of an eye”. It certainly did for the person who wrote it. Emma’s mother died very suddenly of a heart attack when she was just 15.