What a very bizarre few days! A story I wrote back in January about an incident that happened last summer has this week hit the headlines around the world. It has appeared in publications in New Zealand and South Korea, to name a couple, and was one of the most popular stories on the BBC yesterday- as well as being in The Daily Mail, The Independent, The Sun, The Metro….
It all goes back to last July when I discovered a hair wrapped so tightly around Orla’s toes that it was cutting off the circulation – a condition I later discovered was called toe tourniquet syndrome.
After writing about it for Take A Break when I went back to work in January, the article was published last week and has led to way more interest than I ever imagined.
I was invited onto BBC Radio Scotland’s Kaye Adams Programme to talk about what happened to Orla.
And the online version of the story became one of the top stories of the day on the BBC website.
As a journalist, I’ve often had occasion to Google my own name to see where my stories have appeared, but it is rather bizarre to do a search and have mine and Orla’s faces grinning back at me.
Even today I’m still being contacted by various news outlets asking me to send them pictures. It’s very strange being on the other side of a story – and I definitely know which side I prefer!
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