My name is Hollie Olding. I am 21 years old and I have played football since the age of 5. My previous clubs are Brighton and Hove Albion Women, Chelsea and I have played for England u15, u17 and u19s.
I am a 54-year-old female, working as a nurse in the NHS and diagnosed with Antiphospholipid Syndrome in 2015 following an admission to hospital in May 2014 with unprovoked bilateral pulmonary emboli.
I had been up early in the morning with my dogs and was walking up the pathway to my cottage when it hit me, shocking unbearable pain in my right leg that stopped me dead in my tracks. Managing to limp into the house I had no idea what was wrong and had to lie down and catch my breath for a moment.
Much loved son of Lesley and Stanley, beloved stepson of James and Claire and an amazing big brother to Robin and Zoe. Born on 30th August 1995 in Islington, London.
In September 2019 I became unwell with what I thought was a virus, it knocked me for six. I couldn't walk up the stairs and had a headache that I can only describe as ‘the worst headache ever.’
Heather was diagnosed with overproduction of Factor VIII in 2001 (my levels are three half times higher than normal), aged 41.
I remember sitting in Truro hospital, roughly 200 miles away from my family, and there was a poster on the wall. It seems an odd thing to recall but when I was sitting alone in some waiting room, I was trying to find any way to distract myself.
In 2015 Fern gave birth by c-section, in what she was led to believe to be a ‘textbook delivery and recovery’, so when she developed pain she presumed it was just a pulled muscle.
Megan's thrombosis journey began shortly after starting chemotherapy treatment for a rare tumor on her hand.