Time For Change!

I couldn’t go on the way I was

Mellissa O’Connell, 54, Narellan, NSW. THEN NOW Hobbling along the shore, I tried my best to focus on the stunning view. “Let’s go back to the camp site,” my partner George weight. After that, said, noticing my limp. I sighed. It was 2018, and we’d come to Shoalhaven Beach, NSW, for a holiday, but it was impossible to ignore the grief both my knees were giving me. I knew it was down to my weight. Raising my son Joshua as a single mum, I’d found myself timepoor, and while he was always well fed, I’d often ended up ordering fast food for myself. Then, one day at work, aged 29, I tried moving a filing cabinet down some stairs when I tripped and broke my ankle. Getting around on crutches…

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