At first Heather Wills assumed the numbness she had suddenly developed in both her big toes was nothing serious.
‘Being a busy mum, I thought it was caused by standing for long periods, carrying my young daughter and wearing heels that I wasn’t used to,’ the mother of two, then 49, recalls.
But after a week she went to her GP, who gave her a series of tests, including one that checked her reflexes.
‘She said there was definitely something amiss with my ability to feel a light touch,’ says Heather, who lives with her husband, Nick, a teacher, and their children,
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