Itching and scratching our way to a PFIC diagnosis
My childhood neighbor was a university lecturer. One of my earlier memories of her is when she told me, “Sophie, you aren’t nosy. You’re inquisitive,…
Itching and Scratching — Sophie Bourton
Sophie Bourton was born in Manchester, England, and now lives in rural Herefordshire with her young family. Sophie is a symptomatic carrier for progressive familial intrahepatic cholestasis and her daughter, Eva, has the disease. Sophie has worked for over 10 years advocating and fundraising for British wildlife before her daughter’s diagnosis and since then has been increasingly focusing on advocacy for rare liver disease. She is passionate about the benefits of the outdoors for mental and physical well-being, and in her spare time she’ll be found up to her knees in mud at her children’s forest school.
Navigating the unknowns after a diagnosis of PFIC
One difficult thing about a rare disease is that there are so many unknowns, and it’s not always obvious where the answers can be found. Our baby daughter, Eva, was diagnosed in 2021 with a rare liver disease called progressive familial intrahepatic cholestasis (PFIC), and the following weeks, months,…
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