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GET BACK UP AGAIN

Calculating dates in my head, I worked out that my next period was only due in two weeks.

But, staring down at my pants in the office bathroom, there was no mistaking it – there were spots of blood.

It was 1991, and at 30, my periods had always been regular –but lately, I’d been bleeding in between.

A single mum to Jessica, then six, and working full time at an accounting firm, I was rushed off my feet.

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