A thalidomide survivor hopes for closure after receiving an apology from Anthony Albanese for the pharmaceutical disaster. Trish Jackson, who lives with internal complications and shortened limbs, shares her experience of living with the consequences of thalidomide and the cruelty she has faced.
A thalidomide survivor says she had to “prove that my arms hadn’t grown” during humiliating exchanges with a government support agency that she now hopes are forever over after Anthony Albanese offered an “unreserved and overdue” apology to victims of the pharmaceutical disaster . Trish Jackson’s mum had taken thalidomide, a drug prescribed to expectant mothers suffering from morning sickness during the late 1950s and early 1960s, while pregnant with her.
WATCH THE VIDEO ABOVE: Australia says sorry to victims of thalidomide. Tragically, it was later found the tablets were causing significant birth defects in babies. Jackson, 61, who lives with internal complications and shortened limbs, didn’t walk until she was almost seven years of age and had to be carried everywhere until she had major heart surgery at 12. The Brisbane local says thalidomide “created my very confronting body image and the hardest part I think is living with the cruelness of people — the bullying has been horrid”. The intolerance extended to her treatment by doctors too, she sai
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