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I had four days left to live, says Daisy Cooper

Kate Whannel
Political reporter
Daisy Cooper reveals doctors' Crohn's disease warning

Liberal Democrat deputy leader Daisy Cooper has told her party's conference how doctors warned her that, without major surgery, she would only have four days left to live.

The St Albans MP said her Crohn's disease was so aggressive her weight dropped to seven stone and she was told she may never work again.

"I lay in my bed and sobbed. I sobbed and sobbed and sobbed for 17 hours straight. I felt like my world had fallen apart," she said.

She told the conference that the NHS had saved her life but that she feared for anyone going through the experience today.

"Can they even get an appointment with their GP? How long have they been waiting for a scan? Are they stuck in a hospital corridor - rather than a ward - as they scream with pain":[]}