'It was like a horror film' – Woman lost ‘half her blood’ during routine op while battling mystery illness described as ‘laziness’

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Pamela Rose led an active social life, would work out in the gym a couple of times a week, and held down a senior job at a bank that required her to travel across the country.

But then her body began to fail her.

She remembers having a weak immune system since she was a teen, but it wasn’t until her late thirties that her busy lifestyle finally caught up with her.

Pamela repeatedly felt like she was coming down with something, and it became a running joke amongst her colleagues that she’d be the first to pick up a cold or bug circulating in the office.

However she felt her mystery illness was often mistaken for being lazy, including by doctors, and it wasn’t until she was trying to recover after a stint in A&E that her health problems