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A decade or so ago KM had a gastrectomy for stomach cancer and now has to keep to a strict diet, avoiding certain food types she can’t digest.

Top of the list is the persimmon or sharon fruit – not exactly a Granny Smith so an easy fruit to avoid. You might think. Growing up in Malta, KM’s family Christmas always involved eating sharon fruits and this isn’t a tradition she is prepared to let slide, despite her surgeon’s threats.

She knew it wasn’t an idle threat either; these little f***ers have caused five episodes of intestinal obstruction, ruining five Christmases. “It just wouldn’t be Christmas without it,” she tells me. I’m not sure whether she’s talking about the fruit or her hospital admission for intestinal obstruction.

Medical emergencies don’t get any less frequent just because Slade is belting out of every shop’s PA system. Prof Devereux’s termination of pregnancy list is too time-sensitive for a wee theatre with Prof today is Patient SH whose unb is the stuff of ethics text has a cardiac conditio unlikely to live if she c pregnancy.

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Mum’s second baby was also born on Christmas Day. She said ‘For f **** ’s sake, everyone will think I do it to save on presents’