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Article: CARERS: Forget about 'why us,' you just get on and make the most of it.
- Article from:
- Peterborough Evening Telegraph (Peterborough, England)
- Article date:
- June 16, 2006
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THOUSANDS of people in Peterborough care for a poorly loved one, often for 24 hours a day, every day. During Carer's Week, features writer Jemma Walton spoke to two of the city's carers about their lives, and how they are affected by caring for others.
WHEN Emily Hudson was born she had problem after problem that doctors always had a logical explanation for.
Her mum, Stella, spent just four hours in labour with her, and she was born floppy.
When she wouldn't feed, and had to be fed from a tube, doctors told Stella her daughter had been "shocked into life," and that her eating would settle.
A catalogue of health problems followed, but ...