I physically felt my heart stutter and stop, my vision began to fade and my body started to collapse . I didn’t think it would happen to me, until it did. A happy and healthy Sheilagh outside her apartment in San Francisco, one month before pancreas diagnosisMy body’s survival instincts astonish even me – frankly, I am the luckiest unlucky person I know. I remember waking up in the intensive care unit of a hospital in San Francisco following my pancreas operation. I am a private person but I tell my story to people because I was a “normal” person and then the unimaginable happened to me, again, and again, and again.

Source: The Irish Times October 04, 2020 04:52 UTC