Till a rare illness drastically changed her looks, the devoted mother and grandmother was “glamorous and vivacious.”
A “glamorous” mother of eight who spent her final years in her home to avoid onlookers died at the young age of 47.
According to Nicola Kilby’s son Kieran, after a rare illness caused her looks to change, she could hardly bring herself to look in a mirror. She battled Wegener’s Granulomatosis (GPA), an inflammatory blood vessel disease, for five years, but before she was identified, her look had already begun to change.
The illness affects the ears, nose, sinuses, kidneys, and lungs; in Nicola’s case, it caused her nose to collapse, rendered both of her ears deaf, and damaged her soft palate to the point where she found it difficult to speak. Read the full story here ▶
