A Cook That Will Never Eat Again

 

The 29 years old Loretta has been surviving on liquidised meals for years. She almost never joined her family at the dinner table. Even picking up a knife and fork felt unusual, let alone chewing the potato and the chicken seasoned with lemon and garlic.

Loretta crunched into a roast potato and savoured its fluffy insides. She and her mum, Julie, had taken great care to get everything just right because they knew this would be her last ever meal.

In a matter of minutes, a familiar pain would squeeze her stomach like the wringing of a dishcloth, just as it always did whenever she ate or drank anything. Then she would feel painfully full and sick. As if her stomach had been pulled so tautly it would burst.

But she set that aside to enjoy the moment in her family's kitchen, the place where her cooking skills had flourished as a child.

"Sitting down to eat with my mum and sister felt surreal and amazing," she says. "We tried to act like a normal family for once."

But today she had been asked to eat solid food by a bowel consultant, who wanted to understand why eating left Loretta in such agony - and why she might not be able to go to the toilet for weeks or even months.

Loretta had travelled to St Mark's Hospital in London earlier that day to have a thick orange tube threaded through her nose and down into her small intestine, to check the nerve function of her digestive system.

Finally, after years of being disbelieved and misdiagnosed, someone was investigating her problems properly.

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