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I almost had to have my leg amputated because of an infection.

MRSA, which is a kind of super bug mutant, is killing 10,000 people a year in Britain.

Before my mother's diagnosis with Alzheimer's, I had heard of the disease, but hadn't known anyone who had suffered from it.

My mother had a fear of doctors - other than her daughter marrying one.

Unfortunately I had an ankle problem and underwent three operations.

My mother started to suffer from multiple sclerosis, but nobody knew what MS was then. My father didn't - and later he suffered a great deal of guilt over that. It was an awful business and very fraught.

When I was 22, I had this horrible psoriasis outbreak. It was all over my legs, I couldn't walk because my legs were cracked and bleeding. Weird things like that can happen to your body.

I still have in my memory, almost agonizing impressions of a serious illness which I had when I was about eight years old. Those about me called it scarlet fever, and its very name seemed to have a diabolical quality.

There were symptoms that I saw, and though I went to many doctors and had many tests, no one diagnosed MS.

Wedding fever is one of the scariest diseases I have ever seen.