A "glamorous" mum-of-eight has died aged just 47 - after spending her last years inside her house to avoid people staring at her.
Nicola Kilby's son Kieran has told of how she could barely bring herself to look in a mirror after a rare illness changed her appearance. She fought an inflammatory blood vessel disease for five years but the condition, Wegener’s Granulomatosis (GPA), had already started to change her appearance before she was diagnosed.
The condition attacks the ears, nose, sinuses, kidneys and lungs and, in Nicola's case, left her deaf in both ears, damaged her soft pallet to the point that she struggled to talk, and caused her nose to collapse.
