When Carol Howell was diagnosed with a debilitating condition, she was willing to take a risk to get her health back...
Whenever Carol Howell goes for a bike ride along the seafront with her husband Mark, or for a brisk walk with her mum Audrey, she has to pinch herself to remember how far she has come.Some days she struggled to get out of bed; other times she couldn’t get out of a chair.‘I’d been very fit, doing a half-a-mile swim or a ballet session before or after work,’ says Carol, a retired dental surgeon.'I was so achey and stiff, I couldn’t even get out of bed.
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