A VEGAN visiting her family for Christmas has been asked if this is the year medical science has finally come up with a cure for her unfortunate condition.
Hannah Tomlinson, aged 33, has been vegan for 15 years but her family consider themselves blessed not to have caught it and still hold out hope it will one day be reversed.
Dad Gary said: “It was heartbreaking the day she sat us down and told us she was vegan. You read about these sort of things befalling other families, but you never think it’ll happen to you.
“I sent her to the GP who assured us she would be fine as long as she ate plenty of protein from other sources. It’s not fatal. She’s been able to lead something approaching a normal life.
“Still, every year when I buy that nut roast I weep for my little girl and wonder why it had to be her. When she arrives home for Christmas, I ask if there’s been any improvement and she rolls her eyes. Trying to put a brave face on.
“She has a very restricted diet. Can’t have turkey. Can’t have cream. I suggested a homemade remedy of a bacon sandwich but the frustration must have welled up because she told me to piss off. I suppose I’d be bitter, too.
“I’ve assured her doctors manage miracles every day. One day she’ll be as cured as this Serrano ham.”
