A Nottinghamshire mum has opened up about her 15-year-long health battle and the impact it has had on her life. Natalie Maltby, from Carlton, was just 25 when she was diagnosed with a bowel disease in 2007 and had to receive life-saving surgery - and she was recently told she had Crohn's disease.
Natalie, now 40, had just given birth to her second child, and at the time of her diagnosis, had two children under the age of two, when she was first diagnosed with ulcerative colitis (UC).
UC is a long-term condition where the colon and rectum become inflamed, which can cause recurring diarrhoea with blood and pus, tummy pains and needing to go to the toilet often.
