Wounded: Fighting my demons
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"She'll only live for two days if we do not intervene; we need to insert a naso gastric tube to reach her stomach to feed her. A glucose drip will go into her arm; she has collapsed and is weak. She refuses not only to eat, but to drink too, so yet another drip will be put up for fluids. We need to do an ECG to monitor her heart. She's frail but we are informed she WILL fight us.”
I hear the words but am in disbelief: they're talking about me! Only a week before, I had the luxury of `freedom': out with my friends, shopping and partying, yet there was little time for me to eat and drink. I felt invincible, that I could keep going, run on empty, and no-one or nothing could stop me. I'm nineteen at this point. I have suffered in secret since I was about twelve, from the crippling disease that is anorexia, but about a year and a half ago they hung the label around my neck but even since then, my body continues to be punished. At this stage I have already been in hospital three times, a process of feeding, talking, and feeding some more, but each time I'm allowed to return home, and back to what I now know best: anorexia.
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About the Book
what i believed was simply a diet gone wrong, shrinking me to the size of a child, quickly took over my whole existence. sectioned to numerous hospitals and fed through a tube in my nose i was locked in a state of depression, self-harm and so much more. i battled with those trying to help, before trying to fight my way to the top, only to come tumbling down once again. but light now seems to be at the end of my very dark tunnel.
About the Author
Vicky writes a true an inspiring account of the true hell she has experienced: from what started as anorexia nervosa and spread into a multitude of crippling mental health problems. she speaks from the heart and does not hold on back on informing the reader of the truth behind, what is so often seen, as a self inflicted illness.