Upon returning to Brisbane, her symptoms worsened dramatically. Susan described a harrowing episode in which she collapsed onto her bathroom floor in extreme pain. Vomiting, diarrhea, and intense cramping persisted for eight hours. “It was worse than childbirth. I was crawling into the shower, trying to relieve the pain with heat. On a scale of one to ten, it was a nine,” she said. Initially, she thought she might have contracted salmonella from her horse, but the true cause would soon be revealed in a far more serious diagnosis.
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