Spreading my wings

In our weekly showcase from our sister site Truly, we meet Bella, who was paralysed in surgery but vows to defy expectations

After a simple salad put me in hospital, things just got worse

Desperate to get my life back, a call came which changed everything

Grief trapped me inside my own body until I took that vital first step

Feeling the BURN

Nikki Lilly started crying when she saw her portrait – a hyper-realistic pencil drawing that captures the slight slope of her smile, the veins around her eyes, the swelling on the right side of her fa