It's Not the Strongest That Survives

Lily Whelan was once told by a doctor that she had more chance of winning the lottery than recovering from ME/CFS.

Luckily, she likes a challenge.

Two years after contracting glandular fever, she ignored the fact that she had a face like a pufferfish and escaped to the University of Cambridge to achieve her dream of becoming a top scientist.

But her immune system had other ideas. And a virus wasn’t the only thing she found herself fighting, as she came up against a doctor that judged her healt...