Former Desert Island Discs presenter Kirsty Young reveals 'awful' experience with chronic pain
Broadcaster Kirsty Young has spoken about her "awful" experience of chronic pain, which led her to take a four-year break from presenting.
Fibromyalgia causes pain all over the body and can bring on severe fatigue, while rheumatoid arthritis causes pain, swelling and stiffness in the joints. The two long-term conditions are often linked.Young, 54, said she got a diagnosis after about a year of trying to work out what was going on with her health, by which time she was "feeling really, really ropey".
"It was very real. It was said with extreme kindness... but it was just a moment of absolute reality and clarity. I remember I pulled my car over and just had a good old - to use an old Scottish word, I had a good old greet [cry] about it." Young was widely praised for her emotional closing remarks at the end of the funeral coverage. She summed up the mood by saying: "Today we have come together, many of us with tears in our eyes, but all of us with an abiding warmth in our hearts for all that she gave."
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