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'NO STRENGTH' Squirrel Bite Gave Me Fibromyalgia And Now I'll Never Be Able To Run Again
Friday 21 February 2020
 Lisa Pearson, a parenting coach, contracted fibromyalgia after being bitten by a squirrel. |
'NO STRENGTH' Squirrel bite gave me fibromyalgia and now I’ll never be able to run again
LISA PEARSON, 50, a parenting coach, lives in St Albans with husband David, 51, an accountant, and children Max, 14, and Willow, 10.
Here, she opens up about her seven-year battle living with chronic pain.
Lying in bed, I gasped in agony as pain coursed through my body right to the tips of my fingers and toes.
It was so bad that I couldn’t bear my children Willow, then two, and Max, six, or my husband touching my skin.
But this wasn’t a severe case of flu with muscular pains – it was an attack of acute fibromyalgia, a chronic pain condition I’ve battled every day for seven years.
Before fibromyalgia set in, I was in great health. I worked as a senior mental health therapist, and though juggling my career with having a family was hard work, I still managed to fit in daily runs.
But in January 2011, I was bitten by a squirrel in our local park. One of our dogs had picked it up in his mouth, and as I retrieved it, the squirrel bit me on the finger.
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