Pick Me Up! Special

ONE STEP FORWARD

Nipping about my house with a duster, I banished all the dust and grime from my mantlepiece.

Next on my to-do list, I would tackle the vacuuming.

I have always been very house-proud and took a great joy in having a tidy home.

However, I had been finding it harder and harder to get all of my cleaning done.

What used to take me just three hours on a Saturday now took three days to complete.

It started in 2014 but I didn’t know what was causing it.

My knees were becoming increasingly swollen and painful, to the point where my GP would have to extract fluid from them.

I struggled getting around the house, and the thought of walking

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