'The 3am moment with my baby boy that made me realise I had a drinking problem'
Tom Armstrong woke to the muffled sound of his newborn baby crying. It was his turn to do the night feed. He tossed the bed covers off and made his way over to the crib, glancing over at the clock through the cracks between his eyelids. It was 3am.
The more he drank, the more he used his prescribed ADHD medication to be able to function. But it wasn’t always this way – Tom can pinpoint exact the moment his life began to fall apart. Sadly, the operation did not go to plan, leaving him with bone wedged inside his joint capsule. Just nine months later, Tom was officially retired from competitive rugby. The worst part of it all, he claims, is that the injury could have been fixed with physiotherapy.
“I was sat in the oncology unit holding Atlas and I thought, ‘Oh God, my life is ending’. I think that was the trigger; that’s where nine months of self-harm started.” He paid for private blood tests which revealed he had Chronic Inflammatory Response Syndrome, also known as mould illness, an illness that often occurs after exposure to a water-damaged building. Tom believes he contracted the condition while living in his former home.
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