TTTP helps inspirational mum raise awareness of Coeliac disease
Crette Berry got in touch with us a few weeks ago wanting to raise awareness of Coeliac disease, an auto-immune disease cuased by an intolerance to gluten. In an inspirational chain of events, last year, Crette took her son’s health into her own hands after his behaviour at school became so problematic he was on the verge […]
My husband retrained as a private detective – and found my long lost family
Fraser and Sharon Buchanan got in touch with us as they wanted to share their remarkable story of how Fraser retrained as a private detective in a bid to find his wife’s long lost family, and today Sharon’s amazing story appears in Woman magazine. Sharon, now 43, was just 11 when she discovered she was […]
TTTP helps client raise awareness of Crohn’s disease
Fiona Argo got in touch with us as she wanted to raise awareness of Crohn’s disease, a condition she has suffered with since she was a teenager. Although Fiona, now 27, first started displaying symptoms at the age of 16, unfortunately her illness was not diagnosed for another three years as doctors believed she was […]
Why I have no regrets over letting my teen daughter have a gastric band
You may remember Juliet and Katie Hill’s story from November last year, when they appeared in the Daily Mail. Four years ago, Katie became Britain’s youngest gastric band patient after her mum paid for her to fly out to Belgium for the operation when she was just 14. At more than 18 stone, Katie was […]
Cancer boy failed by NHS goes to Germany – Daily Mail story
As soon as we heard about the desperate situation faced by Sam Knighton, we knew a newspaper would be keen to feature her story. Sam’s little boy Zac, 7, is battling cancer, and his lifesaving operation has been cancelled twice due to bed shortages. In desperation, Sam decided to take her son to Germany where […]
Eight years, £36k of IVF and a surrogate – incredible TTTP story appears in the Sun newspaper.
Joy Ward, 36, from Swansea, almost gave up on her dreams of becoming a mother when she was diagnosed with an aggressive form of breast cancer in May 2009. Unlike most breast cancer sufferers, Joy wasn’t scared of dying, or losing a breast, she was scared the inevitable chemotherapy would destroy all her viable eggs […]
Mother and teenage daughter battling osteoporosis share their story in today’s Sun
Today TTTP client Julie Hopkins appears in The Sun newspaper, where she tells her heart breaking story of how osteoporosis is blighting her and her teenage daughter’s life. A few years ago Julie, 42, was healthy and had an active lifestyle. So when she started suffering back pain at the age of 27 she put […]
How I lost an incredible 14 stone in time for Christmas
Like all mums, Michele Faranda-Lee is excited about giving her young kids a big hug on Christmas morning. But until recently this was impossible – because Michele was too fat. Just a couple of years ago Michele, 42, was a size 32 and tipped the scales at 24 stone. But the mum of three is […]
This week’s Chat magazine – baking cakes cured my post-natal depression
This week, Vicky Ponsonby features in Chat magazine where she talks about how baking Christmas cakes cured her postnatal depression and saved her marriage. Vicky, now 38, had always enjoyed cooking but with a hectic career as a defence engineer and a young child had only ever had time to make the occasional cake – most […]
Why I don’t regret letting my daughter have a gastric band at just 14
Just four years ago 18-year-old Katie Hill weighed more than 18 stone and was a size 26. It was no life for a 14-year-old girl and Katie feared that one day she would become housebound. But her life changed dramatically when she became the youngest person in Britain to have a gastric band fitted after […]