<p class="p1">When I was younger, for many years I suffered all kinds of illnesses, including pneumonia, scarlet fever, diphtheria, mumps and tonsillitis. I never went to hospital — my mum cared for me at home. I think that is why my lymph nodes worked overtime; you can’t keep working at 100% all the time without some form of collapse! The nodes in my right groin began to stop working properly. </p>n<p> </p>