‘People congratulate me on being pregnant - but I’ve got an incurable disease’
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ok.co.uk13 years ago Katie Banks was diagnosed with a a life-threatening condition called autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease (ADPKD).
Affecting up to one in every 1,000 to 2,500 people in the UK, it's believed that between 30,000 and 70,000 people in the UK are living with the condition, according to the NHS.
Here, mum-of-two Katie, who lives in Swansea with husband Richard and youngest daughter Oli, tells her story... “‘Congratulations on your pregnancy,’ a well-meaning older lady calls over to me.
I’m standing on a bus, in Greece, on holiday with my husband Richard. I simply nod and smile but she then makes a big deal of telling a passenger to give up their seat for me.
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