Taylor Alison Swift is an American singer-songwriter. She is known for narrative songs about her personal life, which have received widespread media coverage. At age 14, Swift became the youngest artist signed by the Sony/ATV Music publishing house and, at 15, she signed her first record deal.
Her 2006 eponymous debut album was the longest-charting album of the 2000s in the US. Its third single, "Our Song", made her the youngest person to single-handedly write and perform a number-one song on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart. Swift's second album, Fearless, was released in 2008.
Buoyed by the pop crossover success of the singles "Love Story" and "You Belong with Me", it became the US' best-selling album of 2009 and was certified diamond in the US. The album won four Grammy Awards, and Swift became the youngest Album of the Year winner.
Lad suffers from rare 'suicide disease' that's as painful as giving birth every day
dailystar.co.ukNHS, but it's thought to be the result of an abnormal reaction to an injury.The condition causes constant pain so severe that it can drive sufferers to consider suicide.The McGill Pain Scale, used to help doctors rate their patients’ pain, puts CRPS at 42 out of 50 — compared to childbirth at 40 and severe toothache at 20.Effectively, Jack is coping with the pain of childbirth every single day.A study published in the Korean Journal of Pain last year, said that many sufferers “have been known to be at risk of suicide, due to severe pain and its comorbid conditions”.Jack describes the condition as “debilitating, scary and frustrating,” explaining that for six months doctors told him that the pain was “all in his head”.Jack said he can only manage two or three hours of sleep a night, making daily life a constant struggle.Despite it all, he’s managed to secure some good A-Level results and is currently attending Cambridge University remotely from home.Stay in the loop with all the latest Daily Star news by signing up for one of our free newsletters here.After persisting with NHS care, eventually Jack was prescribed opioid painkillers which didn’t help, and Lidocaine Steroid Injections, which caused the pain to “get worse”.Unfortunately, many of the potential treatments for CRPS are not available through the NHS and, because private healthcare insurance won’t cover the vagus nerve therapy Jack’s staking his hopes on, he’s currently trying to raise the money through GoFundMe.
Jack hopes to raise £50,000 for the ‘vagus nerve stimulation’ at the Spero Clinic, Arkansas, USA. So far he’s collected a little over £8,000.
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